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Keep wildlife outside where it belongs! ?? As temperatures drop, animals like raccoons, squirrels, and mice start looking for warm places to shelter—and your home can be a top target. Creating barriers now is key to keeping them out! Here are a few expert tips: 1?? Seal All Entry Points: Check for gaps around windows, doors, vents, and your home’s foundation. Even small cracks can be an entry point for determined critters. 2?? Install Chimney Caps and Vent Covers: These simple additions can prevent animals from nesting in your chimney and vents. 3?? Trim Trees and Shrubs: Overhanging branches give animals easy access to your roof, where they may find weak spots to enter. Need help animal-proofing your home? We are here to keep your home cozy and critter-free this season! ??224-431-7956 ?? https://zurl.co/YmUd #furbusters #mchenrycountyil #lakecountyil #wildliferemoval #squirrelseason

?? Happy Bonfire Night from all of us at Gibbons Engineering Group! ?? While we’re all set to enjoy the sparkle and crackle of fireworks, let’s remember to celebrate responsibly. Fireworks and bonfires can be exciting for us, but they can be unsettling for animals and wildlife. ?? A few ways to keep our furry and feathered friends safe this Bonfire Night: Check before you light! Piles of wood can be tempting shelter for wildlife, so give your bonfire a quick check for hedgehogs or other small creatures. Keep it down: Try to keep fireworks and noise to a minimum near farms or fields to help reduce stress for local wildlife. Plan ahead: Letting neighbours with pets know your fireworks schedule helps them prepare and calm their animals. Wishing everyone a safe and sparkling Bonfire Night! ?? #BonfireNight #WildlifeFriendly #GibbonsEngineeringGroup #FireworksSafety

?? Bonfire Night Hedgehog Safety Tips ?? Remember, November 5th isn’t just about fireworks and bonfires—it’s also about keeping our prickly little friends safe! Hedgehogs love to nest in piles of leaves, logs, and garden debris, which makes bonfire stacks a dangerous spot for them. Here’s how you can help: 1. Build your bonfire on the day - Assemble the pile right before lighting it, so there’s less chance of hedgehogs moving in. 2. Check before lighting - Gently lift and move sections of the bonfire to make sure there’s no wildlife hiding inside. 3. Use a torch & pole - Shine a light and use a pole to carefully sift through the pile. If you see a hedgehog, safely move it to a quiet area. 4. Keep pets indoors - This helps keep them safe and minimises noise that can disturb wildlife. Enjoy Bonfire Night while protecting hedgehogs and other wildlife. Spread the word and let’s make this night safe for all! ???? #BonfireNight #HedgehogSafety #WildlifeProtection #KeepHedgehogsSafe

Following the tragic torture and end of a yearling wolf's life in Wyoming, and our subsequent Wyoming Wolf Week to honor this lost life, we remain committed to spotlighting the questionable wildlife "management" decisions in this state and beyond. Wyoming continues to remain at the forefront of concerning wildlife-related choices. Hunters in this state, and many others, often claim that 'wolves decimate elk and deer populations'. However, science simply does not support this claim. Even more plainly, exploding elk populations do not support this claim. In an effort to cull some of the state’s abundant elk herds, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has recently proposed unlimited cow/calf elk tags in some hunt areas this fall. And yet, the "what about the elk?" argument persists, despite wolves engaging in what's known as compensatory predation. This means that while they may contribute to ungulate mortality, they do not increase the overall death rate in populations. Instead, they may simply alter the primary cause of mortality, often replacing other factors such as disease or environmental stress. Wyoming allows some of the heaviest wolf persecution in the Northern Rockies, effectively working to eliminate the most natural and obvious solution to their ungulate imbalance — wolves. Wyoming Game and Fish Department, it's time to #StopWildlifeMismanagement. #Wyoming #Elk #RelistWolves #ProtectAmericasWolves #Wolves #WolfWednesday

The benefits beavers provide to fish and wildlife, ecosystems, and humans are amazingly diverse and numerous. Society is beginning to fully reimagine and rebuild a world where beavers are allowed to return and thrive within their native ranges. Check out the article below to learn about how beavers provide much needed fire resilience ???????? https://lnkd.in/gYWFtnrp

It’s so frustrating to see more and more state and even federal agencies now also ignoring science. I’m used to politicians doing this, even used to some Media agencies “both siding” coverage on these topics and promoting non-sense and ignoring or limiting discussion of the actual science… to get to “fair and balance” (and protect their numbers and thus bottom lines and profits) but it’s infuriating that actual government agencies are also now ignoring it.

MCP? Advanced (AGM-227) on an 8' x 18' spacing (302 TPA) after 6.5 years in the field in King and Queen County, VA. By widening out your spacing using ArborGen MCP?, you can accomplish multiple objectives such as increasing tree diameter, transitioning more stems to chip-n-saw and sawtimber at younger ages, reducing future pulpwood, and maintaining your understory grasses/herbaceous layer longer for wildlife.

Today is #WorldHabitatDay! Nebraska is the crossroads of East meets West and North meets South. It offers a diversity of habitat as a grassland stronghold and a forested landscape, too. ???????????????? — Nebraska contains more acres of wetlands than any surrounding state. These wetlands are very diverse and dynamic and include marshes, lakes, river and stream backwaters, oxbows, wet meadows, fens, forested swamps, and seeps. ???????????? ?????? ?????????????? — Rivers and streams are crucial to Nebraska and its residents. They provide habitat to numerous plant, fish and wildlife species, including many that are endangered or protected, and they diversify the state’s economy. ???????????????? — Nebraska is comprised by four types of grassland spaces: tall-grass, short-grass, mixed-grass and sandhills prairies. These distinct ecological regions support a variety of wildlife. ?????????????????? — Nebraska’s eastern edge, segments of the north central, and the northwest corner are know for their woodlands, which support a variety of wildlife and provide recreation opportunities for people statewide. Learn more about Nebraska's wetlands, prairies, woodlands, rivers and streams here: https://brnw.ch/21wNxtM #NEgameandparks #OutdoorNebraska #Wetlands #RiversandStreams #Prairies #Woodlands

"Colorado has made it easier for ranchers to use artificial light to kill wolves in the dark. This door should never have been opened and let’s hope it never will be on the ground. Once it is it’ll be a difficult one to close. Let’s keep the lights off." - Marc Bekoff Ph.D., Project Coyote Science Advisory Board Member If you've been following the developments with Colorado's newly reintroduced wolves, don't miss Project Coyote Science Advisory Board Member Marc Bekoff's latest blog post. Marc discusses the controversial decision by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission to allow ranchers to use nighttime spotlights to kill recovering gray wolves while providing an in-depth analysis of the ethical and ecological implications of this decision, making it a must-read for anyone interested in this ongoing recovery effort. Marc goes on to discuss the complexities and ethical considerations surrounding the relocation of wolves from Oregon to Colorado and the subsequent decisions that impact their survival. We wholeheartedly agree as Marc emphasizes the importance of protecting these intelligent, sentient animals, and we urge readers to think deeply about the consequences of such reactive policies. "What baffles me and many others is the fact that the people of Colorado voted to repatriate wolves, they were successfully released, and now the possibility that they can be killed within months of arriving looms if permission is given to turn on the lights." ?? Don't miss Marc's insights on this critical issue: https://lnkd.in/egmrRNvt ?? Colorado Parks and Wildlife

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball A few days ago I passed an old church and saw a door blown open. The same building has a broken clerestory window that shows strong signs of an owl or some other raptor using it to get in to the church and use it as a sheltered roost. So I took a chance and put an online customer service request to Moyne Shire Council asking if they'd contact the owner of the building being open to human trespassers ......and ask on my behalf about me setting up a remote camera to find out what birds might be using the window into it. Imagine my delight that the rates team read that and have agreed to contact owner about the door and pass on my survey request. Nothing might come of that but if it does just think how utterly stunning those photos will be. How, if the bird(s) are using the building as I suspect, there will be the potential for an analysis of what they are preying on from their regurgitation pellets on the floor. How this could be a way to highlight the very important role of raptors in controlling pest rodents, and from that some education media about community action to help these birds by not using the rodenticides that kill them too. It's an octopus of actions that could happen. If they do its another example of people helping people to help our precious wildlife. I've lost nothing asking.