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Nature's Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem Paperback – June 13, 2024
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Previously published as Nature’s Action Guide: A Companion to Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope by Sarah F. Jayne.
Transform your space into a thriving, biodiverse habitat and make a positive impact on the looming biodiversity crisis. Are you ready to take action?
Make a lasting impact on the environment and create a healthier, more biodiverse ecosystem with Nature's Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem. This comprehensive guide offers practical, cost-conscious, toward zero-waste solutions to help protect wildlife and preserve our planet.
Nature's Action Guide features fifteen urgently needed actions to create healthy, functioning ecosystems where you live, work, and play. Each action includes an action checklist, step-by-step instructions, recommended resources, and informative tips.
Nature’s Action Guide is an ideal resource for everyone—gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Take action everywhere—in your yard or apartment balcony, on a farm, or wherever you live, work or play!
- Develop a practical, natural, and beautiful vision for your space
- Get to know the keystone plants that support wildlife
- Learn to identify the invasive plants that threaten biodiversity
- Provide nesting habitat and a sequence of blooms for pollinators
- Create pupation sites and plant host plants that support caterpillars
- Include water features and protect the watershed
- Manage your space in ways that protect bees, butterflies, birds, and other wildlife
- Inspire neighborhood acceptance for nature's natural look
Limited space or no green thumb? City dwellers and non-gardeners can take important actions to support biodiversity:
- Reduce night light
- Mark windows to safeguard birds
- Prevent animal entrapment
- Use nontoxic home and yard products
- Many more DIY actions that make a positive impact on the environment
Illustrated with over 750 color photos and diagrams, Nature’s Action Guide will help you to take action to restore biodiversity and local abundance while we still can.
- Print length274 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 13, 2024
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.62 x 11 inches
- ISBN-100983235007
- ISBN-13978-0983235002
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Nature’s Action Guide
Foreword by Douglas W. Tallamy
Author of the best sellers Bringing Nature Home, Nature's Best Hope and The Nature of Oaks. Dr. Tallamy has been featured in the New York Times and interviewed by NPR, the Associated Press, and numerous other outlets.
Take the 15 urgently needed actions to help your landscape provide these four essential ecosystem services
Support wildlife food webs
Shrink the lawn. Remove invasive plants. Plant keystone plants. Protect caterpillar pupation sites. Turn off the lights at night. Mark glass to prevent bird strikes.
Support pollinators
Plant host plants for native pollen specialist bees. Plant for all-season bloom. Leave stems, deadwood, and bare ground for nesting bees. Don’t buy plants treated with neonicotinoids.
Protect the watershed
Plant dense layers of plants to help keep water on your property. Avoid applying fertilizer. Use nontoxic pest and weed control methods. Properly dispose of toxins. Change water use habits.
Build soil and sequester carbon
Leave leaf litter. Leave deadwood on site. Plant dense layers of plants to protect the soil structure. Reduce mowing to reduce emissions. Plant trees and other plants to sequester carbon.
Nature’s Action Guide features 15 urgent action steps along with checklists, guides, and supplemental materials
Step-by-step checklists for each of the 15 actions featured in Nature’s Action Guide include page numbers that refer to an illustrated guide for each action.
Full-color guides for each action provide step-by-step DIY how-to instructions for taking action, along with recommended tools for regional adaptations and resources for further study.
Supplemental materials provide background information and topics worthy of further exploration.
Nature’s Action Guide includes full-color illustrated tips, resources, and step-by-step DIY how-tos.
Start small but be prepared to be amazed by how fast your wildlife-friendly landscape will come alive!
Use the BONAP maps (Biota of North America Program maps) to identify native, introduced, and invasive plant species.
Plan a wildlife-friendly landscape bed in seven steps aided by the resources and tools presented throughout the guide.
Add year-round water sources with ground-level and elevated water features.
You’ll know your landscape has come alive when . . .
. . . a caterpillar is spotted feeding on its host plant.
. . . holes appear in the stems that you left standing for native bees.
. . . a baby bird successfully fledges in your wildlife habitat.
. . . your water feature is a popular destination for wildlife.
Product details
- Publisher : Old Garden
- Publication date : June 13, 2024
- Language : English
- Print length : 274 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0983235007
- ISBN-13 : 978-0983235002
- Item Weight : 1.75 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.62 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #123,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #57 in Landscape
- #114 in Garden Design (Books)
- #207 in Environmentalism
About the author

Sarah F. Jayne has worked intensively with plants and wildlife for over four decades from California to the East Coast where she now lives. She earned a degree in agriculture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and went on to own and operate an organic market farm and nursery. Later, inspired by Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home, Sarah transformed her approach to landscaping. Recognizing the pivotal role that each person can play in addressing the biodiversity crisis, she trials methods to manage ecological landscapes that enable people who may have limited resources and little or no gardening skills to encourage biodiverse ecosystems that support wildlife where they live. A result of that work, Nature’s Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem helps homeowners and renters take the actions needed to support biodiversity wherever they live and work.





