Clifton Earth Month 2020
What will YOU do to help make Clifton
a sanctuary for the living world?
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Watch the movie Hometown Habitat : Stories of Bringing Nature Home free online viewing April 1-7 for any Cliftonite.
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Add native plants
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Join the Naturally Clifton Facebook Group and/or sign up for Wild About Clifton updates on our website
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Put out a bird bath or other water source
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Upload photos of wild things (plants, animals, etc) to iNaturalist
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Put up a bluebird box
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Read Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
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Reduce or eliminate lawn chemicals
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Keep cats indoors
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Remove invasive introduced plants
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Reduce my lawn area
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Eliminate outdoor insecticides (except in emergencies)
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Participate in City Nature Challenge April 24-27
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Not use a gas-powered leaf blower
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Grow food (organically). Share vegetable seeds and seedlings.
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Change outdoor light bulbs to yellow LED (3,000K or less). Put motion sensors on outdoor lights
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Reduce stormwater runoff
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Create a stream buffer at least 100 feet wide
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Create a butterfly garden
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Participate in invasive plant removal events in the local parks
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Protect areas for ground nesting bees
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Add a Critter Skimmer, Frog Log or other escape devise to my swimming pool
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Leave fallen leaves and grass clippings leaves on the lawn (chopping them up with the mower if needed)
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Compost kitchen and yard scraps
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Put up a solar roof array
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Protect birds against window strikes
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Help identify observations on iNaturalist
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Invite a child, or a friend or neighbor, to take a nature walk (after the restrictions are lifted!)
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Ask at least one neighbor to do some of these things
I pledge to do at least one of these things