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Looking to attract deer, songbirds, pheasants and butterflies onto your property, while improving air, water and soil quality? Come to a free workshop near you to learn about programs and tools available to help you create quality wildlife habitat on your property!
These workshops also will assist those enrolled in the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE) program with guidance through the entire process.
Grassland habitats provide significant value to wildlife and to Michigan citizens. They help filter water, collect carbon to help clean our air and hold down the soil to prevent erosion. They also provide homes and food for a variety of wildlife species, including deer, songbirds, butterflies, turkeys, pheasants and many more. Pollinators like bees and butterflies, which help to pollinate important agricultural crops, also need grassland habitats.
Michigan United Conservation Clubs, the Department of Natural Resources, Farm Bill biologists and other partners will present a special habitat workshop series around the Lower Peninsula to provide landowners with information about how to plant, manage and fund grassland habitats on private land.
These workshops are hosted in part by the Michigan Pheasant Restoration Initiative Coalition. The MPRI is a conservation initiative to restore and enhance Michigan pheasant habitat, populations and hunting opportunities on private and public lands via pheasant cooperatives. It works by acquiring state and federal resources to assist landowners in the cooperatives to improve wildlife habitat on their properties and by improving habitat on selected state game areas, recreation areas or other public lands.
If you have questions about registering, please contact Morgan Warda at mwarda@mucc.org or 517-346-6454.