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gardens, it s also the perfect time to think about what we can do to restore and protect wildlife habitat.
There is a wealth of wildlife information available from many organizations - so much so that finding the right source can be a daunting task. Conservationists Pam Owen and Don Loock understood this two years ago, when they began planning the first Wildlife Habitat Open House.
“We'd been getting requests from people about where to get good information on native plants and how to attract wildlife to their properties,” recalled Owen, who is the Lead Coordinator for the RLEP Biodiversity Task Force. “We realized how easy it is to get confused about all the conservation programs out there, so we thought it would be great to bring these "organizations together in one room. People could do one-stop •shopping for wildlife habitat .Information and get inspired to ' start habitat projects.”
Loock, who is Land Conservation- Officer at the PEC office * in Sperryville, agreed. After . working with landowners to ‘“help them put their property “into the conservation easement program, he wanted to give
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