The National Wildlife Federation will recognize your garden or landscape as an official Certified Wildlife Habitat®. Certify your habitat and have a tree planted for wildlife in your honor.

A $20 application fee will help further protect and restore key habitat for bees, butterflies, birds, amphibians, and other wildlife nationwide.

Benefits of certification include:

*A native tree to a community or school to plant and care for

*Personalized Certified Wildlife Habitat Certificate

*One-year membership to NWF

*One-year subscription to National Wildlife magazine

*Monthly Garden for Wildlife e-newsletter

*10 percent off the NWF Shop

Certified Wildlife Habitat® Plaques are available for purchase when certifying.

Here are a few ways to provide wildlife with a place to raise their young:

*Use native plants in your garden. Butterflies and moths need native plants such as milkweed, passionflower, oak, willow, and elm for their caterpillars to grow.

*Create a backyard pond and provide frogs and other amphibians a place to lay their eggs and for tadpoles to grow into adults.

*Birds nest in tree branches or in cavities in dead or decaying tree snags. Protect mature trees, keep snags standing, and plant new trees.

*Provide a brush pile as shelter for rabbits, foxes, lizards, and a variety of other wildlife to nest and raise their young.

For certification information visit https://www.nwf.org/CertifiedWildlifeHabitat.