Backyard Birding

• Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
• Colorado Birding locations and checklists
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology – online guide to bird watching, all about birds

Dealing with Unwanted Wildlife

Pocket Gopher

• Burrowing Animal ID (prairie dogs, voles, moles, ground squirrels, and pocket gophers – Determine species by burrows and damage.
• Managing Prairie Dogs in Colorado
• Specific Animal Control – Prairie Dogs, Voles, Skunks, Birds, Snakes, Deer, Elk, etc.
• Fencing with Wildlife in Mind – Guidelines and details for constructing fences with wildlife in mind.
• Have a Wildlife Question? Contact Parks and Wildlife.
• Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management – University of Nebraska has many fine publications and links.
• Living with Urban Wildlife

Bees and Other Pollinators

• Attracting Bats – Build a Bat House and Criteria for Successful Bat Houses
• Biology of Some Common Bees and Wasps
• Gardening For Insects – butterfly gardening, flowers that attract native bees, honey bees, and moths
• Build a Nest For Native Bees
• DriftWatch – Register your pesticide-sensitive areas, a resource for pesticide applicators
• Pollinator Mix to Attract Bees and Other Pollinators

Resources & Helpful Information

SAM Webinars and Web Videos

• Wildlife Habitat Improvements for Forests in Colorado
• Preventing & Controlling Wildlife Damage

SAM Newsletter Articles

• Best Plants to Create Habitat – summer 2020
• Nature’s Little Serial Killer, the Loggerhead Shrike – fall 2019
• Feeding Wildlife During Winter Does Harm
• Making Beeswax Candles – spring 2016
• Americans Tend to Think About Wildlife Like their Ancestors Did – fall 2015
• Pollinators: Everyone Needs a Home – summer 2013
• Fall Birdhouse Cleaning – fall 2013
• Where Do They Go for Winter? – fall 2013
• Dragonfly Pond Watch – summer 2013
• Protecting and Enhancing Riparian Areas – fall 2012
• Improving Land for Pheasant and Other Grassland Birds – fall 2011
• Snakes – summer 2012
• Wildlife and Mountain Living – spring 2012
• Pocket Gophers Signs Are Showing Up Again – spring 2011
• Stop the Japanese Beetle – fall 2010
• Pollinators – spring 2010
• Got Voles – winter 2010
• Mountain Pine Beetle – fall 2009

CSU Factsheets

• Friendly Pesticides for Home Gardens
• Attracting Butterflies to the Garden
• Nuisance Wasps and Bees
• Beneficial Insects and Other Arthropods
• Insect Control: Soaps and Detergents
• Insect Control: Horticultural Oils
• Wildflowers in Colorado
• Native Herbaceous Perennials for Colorado Landscapes
• Herbaceous Perennials

More Wildlife Resources

• NRCS Wildlife Habitat Tip sheet
• National Wildlife Federation Garden for Wildlife
• Backyard Conservation – published by NRCS, this publication will help you make your backyard more attractive by increasing food and shelter for birds, reducing soil erosion, and much more.
• National Diversity Information Source – CO’s Biological Map and Data Resource.
• Wildlife Factsheets
• The Xerces Society – Invertebrate Conservation