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Learn to attract more wildlife

Marshall Helmberger
Posted 2/8/23

REGIONAL— Would you like to learn more about how to attract wildlife to your property? Whether you’re looking to attract more butterflies to your backyard or more whitetail deer to your …

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Learn to attract more wildlife

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REGIONAL— Would you like to learn more about how to attract wildlife to your property?
Whether you’re looking to attract more butterflies to your backyard or more whitetail deer to your back forty, a workshop series provided by the University of Minnesota Extension Service just might be the answer.
“There will be different sessions on everything from creating whitetail habitat to attracting other mammals and birds, even pollinators,” said Troy Salzer, an extension educator based in Virginia.
The series is being offered as an online webinar series that will be run over five consecutive Mondays, starting March 20-April 17. The webinars run from 7-8:30 p.m. and each session will focus on a different aspect of wildlife habitat management. Topics include different species groups and selecting the appropriate site, as well as the planning, establishment, and management of habitat for those groups.
Salzer said he’s regularly amazed at the number of calls he gets from landowners in the area who are interested in learning more about how to improve wildlife habitat.
“I’m really excited about this,” said Salzer, who will be teaching two of the sessions himself.
Perhaps the best part of the workshop series is the price. It’s free for residents of St. Louis County, a perk of the county’s ongoing funding of extension service activities.
Registration for the series is online at: z.umn.edu/WildlifeHabitatSeries2023. Participants that live in or own land in St. Louis, Carlton, Cook, Pine or Isanti county, will want to contact Mercedes Moffett, moffe029@umn.edu or 218-384-3511 before registering so she can give you the code for free registration. Without the code, the cost of the series is $100.
If you can’t make any of the sessions, the webinars will be available on St. Louis County Extension’s YouTube channel, found at University of MN Ag Extension – St. Louis County.