ODNR Division of Wildlife - Wild Resources - WILD School Sites

Project Ideas

Create perching posts or perching wires that enhance the habitat of perching birds and provide a place to study bird behavior and adaptations
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Boys seining creek Bird eggs
Plant shrubs and trees that provide both food and shelter for wildlife in an arrangement that maximizes their effectiveness.
Kids hiking
Participate in stream water quality monitoring program. This can include litter clean-up activities.
Create and manage a trail of nest boxes for cavity nesting birds such as bluebirds, chickadees, titmice, and wrens.
Kids planting shrubs
Kids in prairie
Create a garden to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Butterfly plants should be selected that will provide nectar for adults and serve as a larval food source.
Establish a grain food plot near shelter to provide winter food for a variety of birds and small mammals.
Kids raising hands
Establish a prairie garden as a demonstration of this native Ohio habitat that will also provide food and shelter for insects and small mammals.
Lids planting seeds
Boy with hand trowel
Create brush piles, rock piles, or rotting log features that serve as shelter for wildlife and activity centers for outdoor studies.