WellBeing News
Abstract
Are suburban yards/gardens good for wildlife? If you are one of the 57 million Americans who feed and watch birds at home that question may seem a little silly. And that number does not include the additional 15 million people who say they enjoy observing mammals such as squirrels (visible, often annoyingly so) as well as deer, raccoons, foxes, coyotes and others (sometimes easily seen, but more often not) in our suburban and urban developments. In fact there are nearly 80 million Americans who are called “around the home wildlife watchers” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which conducts a national survey every five years (the most recent was in 2016) from which these and other statistics are gleaned. The most recent survey also records that there has been a substantial upw
Recommended Citation
Hadidian, John
(2020)
"Backyard Wildlife,"
WellBeing News: Vol. 2:
Iss.
10, Article 3.
Available at:
https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/wbn/vol2/iss10/3