Dear Tenney-Lapham neighbors,
Hello, my name is Tor Janson, and
I live on Dayton Street. I am a trained Habitat Steward volunteer with the
National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat program. I work
at the Prairie Ridge Nursery near Mt. Horeb, and this fall I will enroll in the
University of Wisconsin’s Landscape Architecture graduate program.
If you are looking to attract more
wildlife to your yard, reduce runoff pollution into Madison’s lakes,
landscape with native plants, lower mosquito populations, and beautify your
surroundings, I can provide you with free advice and assistance. I received
training from the NWF with the understanding that I would then help people
create backyard wildlife habitats. I hope to complete my service within the
Tenney-Lapham neighborhood.
I’d like to help whether you
want a complete overhaul of your yard or just some changes here and there. I
can provide useful literature and information, tour your site with you, and
assist in developing a plan for your site that matches your goals and desire. I
can also help you meet criteria to certify your yard as an official NWF
Backyard Wildlife Habitat.
I am especially interested in
helping groups or pairs of neighbors to coordinate their efforts. Backyard
habitat plans coordinated among neighbors can provide more habitat diversity
and environmental benefits than if everyone operates in a vacuum.
I should emphasize that I am not a
landscaping professional. There are many limitations to what I know, what I can
do, and how many projects I can take on.
Please contact me for more
information. The NWF Backyard Wildlife Habitat website is http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/
Sincerely,
Tor Janson
1123 E Dayton St, Apt. D.
Madison, WI 53703
259-9189
torjanson@hotmail.com
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