Wildlife (creating habitat, wildlife issues, garden damage)

Getting Started

• The wild, the wonderful, and the hungry. Living with wildlife in Wyoming. (B&B Wyoming Rural Living Resources guide section)
• Homeowner's Guide for Resolving Wildlife Conflicts (Wyoming Game and Fish, 1992)
• The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (research-based info from the University of Nebraska and others) http://icwdm.org/

Habitat

• Ask Sam - attractive landscapes that are wildlife friendly
• Cover: Its Importance to Wyoming's Wildlife (UW CES pub B-967 Written 2004)
• General Guidelines for Planting Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife (Wyoming Game and Fish, 1994)
• Guidelines for Planting Herbaceous Species for Wildlife (Wyoming Game and Fish, 1992)
• Landscaping guidelines to Attract Wildlife (UW CES pub B-1001 Written 1994)
• Planting for Backyard Wildlife
• Riparian Areas
• Simple steps to bolster game bird habitat
• Wildlife Habitat
• Winter Big Game Feeding: An Undesirable Wildlife Management Practice (UW CES pub B-1003 Written 1994)
• Wyoming Wildscape: How to Design, Plant, and Maintain Landscaping to Benefit People and Wildlife (Wyoming Game and Fish Dept, Written 2005)

Birds

• Bird Habitat
• Bird Habitat Issues
• Building and Locating Backyard Birdhouses (UW CES pub B-995 Written 1994)
• Create homes so bluebirds come your way
• Feeding Birds in Your Backyard: A Great Way to Attract Wildlife (UW CES pub B-991 Written 1994)
• Here's how to identify Wyoming's wonderful raptors
• Techniques attract desired bird species to barnyards and backyards
• Tiny bird, big appetite
• The Hummingbird: Attracting and Enjoying Wyoming's Most Fascinating Bird (UW CES pub B-986 Written 1994)
• Who's who of famous Western birds
• When Fido and Fluffy attack: Minimizing pet-wildlife conflicts

Fish

• Featured landowner: Takin care of the trout
• Wyoming fish ponds: How to build and stock them

Small Mammals

• Bats: Information & Management Techniques for Wyoming Homeowners (UW CES pub B-945 Written 1991)
• Controlling black-tailed prairie dogs important issue for Wyoming landowners
• I've got gophers!
• Managing Badger Damage (UW CES pub B-1004 Written 1994)
• Managing Damage by House Mice (UW CES pub B-1012 Written 1995)
• Plague - what causes it? What are the symptoms?
• Porcupine Ecology and Damage Management Techniques for Rural Homeowners (UW CES pub B-1073 Written 1999)
• Wyoming's bat species - essential allies for rural landowners

Big Mammals (Deer, Elk, Bears, etc.)

• Fence designs accommodate wildlife but keep livestock in
• Mule Deer Habitat Requirements & Management in Wyoming (UW CES pub B-965 Written 1995)
• Precautions can ease human-bear conflicts
• White-Tailed Deer Habitat Requirements & Management in Wyoming (UW CES pub B-964 Written 1995)

Landscape Damage

• Landscaping techniques prevent plants from becoming a wildlife buffet
• Reducing deer and rabbit damage to woody plants

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