Site Assessment 101:
Understanding Your Landscape
Part 2 of The Ultimate Guide to Creating Pollinator and Wildlife Habitat on Your Property
Get to know your site so that you can be more successful as you create your pollinator and wildlife habitat.
What does this course cover?
- Why doing a site assessment is important
- The different components that make up your site’s physical characteristics, past and present activities, plant history, and place in the bigger picture.
- How to assess each of those components.
- The impacts each of those components can have on your habitat projects and some ways to deal with those impacts.
What will you have accomplished when you finish this course?
If you follow along and do each of the action steps, you’ll finish the course with:
- a solid understanding of why it’s so important to do a site assessment before starting a new habitat project.
- a complete assessment of the unique characteristics associated with your site
- the knowledge of how your site’s unique characteristics can influence your habitat goals and projects
- an invaluable document for guiding your choices as you begin implementing your habitat projects and deciding which native plants to grow.
What do you get when you sign up for this course?
- 19 bite-sized lessons (lessons range between 2 and 17 minutes long)
- Digital Site Assessment 101 Workbook
- Direct access to Shannon and Anthony for additional support and guidance through a private online forum and live virtual meetings
- Support, encouragement, and shared experiences of other Community members who “get you” and what you are trying to do
- Complete access to the Backyard Ecology™ Community’s library of courses and other resources
- Everything else included in the Backyard Ecology™ Community’s standard membership
Who teaches the course?
Shannon is your teacher and guide for the Site Assessment 101 course. She shares not only her knowledge but also examples of how she applies these same principles to her own habitat goals.
Shannon is a life-long nature lover who has a Masters degree in Ecology and a Bachelors degree in wildlife biology. Shannon is passionate about sharing her love of nature and inspiring others to take action in their own yards and communities.
Shannon and her husband, Anthony, are actively managing their property to attract pollinators and wildlife. So, she understands all the excitement, challenges, frustrations, and celebrations that come with trying to create a functioning ecosystem on your property because they’re experiencing the same things.
When does this course take place?
This is a self-paced course that you can go through anytime you want – there’s no set start or stop date. Work on it whenever is convenient for you.
How do you participate in this course?
Site Assessment 101 is free for all members of the Backyard Ecology™ Community. To access the course, simply join the Community!
You’ll also get free access to all the other courses and resources in our growing library.
