Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
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Christina Kobland is an award-winning, native-landscaping biodiversity and wildlife specialist. Christina founded Native Return, LLC, based in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, as a one-stop shop for clients wishing to establish native plant habitat rich with biodiversity.
She advocates for native wildlife and their habitat through her blog at east33.org, and she also educates the public about the benefits of native landscaping through her lectures.
Christina is currently within a multi-year research project at Northeast Philadelphia Airport, studying her patent-pending, low maintenance, no-mow turfgrass FlightTurf™, a turfgrass grazing wildlife such as geese and deer avoid, resulting in safer conditions – for wildlife and people -- in areas such as airports and roadsides.
Problems from Bird Strikes January, 2009: Capt. Chesley Sullenberger ditches Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese following takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York. April 24 , 2012: A JetBlue plane bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., makes an emergency landing at Westchester Coumty Airport north of New York City after a bird [...]
Meadow Lawns. You might think this is an oxymoronic trick word-pairing, given that the definition of a lawn is “a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed.” As we know, meadows aren’t normally mowed. It might work, however, if you consider that the word “especially“ is not “only” which gives meadows a fighting chance, for a meadow [...]
On Dec. 5, this snowy owl made an appearance in Albany, Oregon, a state that rarely sees birds of this kind. The birds have been seen across the nation this winter. David Patton, Associated Press It’s got to be good news if it makes Section A of the NY Times, even on a Monday! We’ve [...]
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In many areas where animal migrations can be large, seasonal and visible, as on the prairies and plains of Wyoming, Utah and Montana, wildlife-friendly fencing is a necessity, an art, and a science. Many species of wildlife undergo seasonal movements to seek food, water or breeding habitat, and their migrations make for great Discovery Channel viewing. Ski [...]
I am so pleased to have been added to the Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens Team. My world revolves around wildlife and their protection. Some of my fondest memories are, as a young girl, running through the meadows in search of butterflies and turning stream rocks hoping to find a crayfish. In picking a college I searched for a school [...]
