Encouraging Wildlife in Our Gardens with Gail Presley, Wildlife Biologist

This program is the first in the Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Belfast Free Library.

The program is offered on zoom. Register for the zoom link here.

Watching a male Cardinal tenderly feed his mate makes us aware that they must be nesting nearby. Seeing a fox hunt for small rodents makes us realize it depends on our property for food. Through planning and placement, we can enhance the habitat features wildlife need to thrive in our gardens. In this talk, we’ll explore habitat needs, how to design your landscape to provide habitat, how to  choose plants to add or remove, and other steps toward rewilding our landscapes.

Gail Presley worked as a wildlife biologist who worked in landscape conservation planning for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for 22 years. Later she led the Georges River Land Trust for seven years. Her property in Rockland was a blank canvas that she began to fill with vegetable and flower gardens, fruit trees, and native plants. She has a BS from California Polytechnic State University in wildlife conservation.