Join our Suburban Wildlife page on Facebook
Increasingly over the years, the suburban landscape has turned into a habitat for wildlife. All sorts of critters show up in our yards, our gardens, our ponds, our roads, our parks and our forest preserves.
On dailyherald.com, stories about wildlife always draw considerable interest, whether it's a simple story about a coyote sighting, a debate about deer harvesting or tips about how to keep squirrels out of your attic (or to get skunks out from under your deck).
As suburbanites, we not only cope with this wildlife, but we also talk about it — talk about how to protect it or about how to protect ourselves from it.
With that in mind, we've launched our Suburban Wildlife Facebook group to make the talking easier.
It's not designed to replace Daily Herald coverage of wildlife topics, but to be both a supplement to that coverage and an engaging outreach to those who may have insights and expertise to add to the conversation. It's a chance to learn from each other — and perhaps to mix in a little fun and a bit of debate at the same time.
It's also a great place to get updates on what's going on in real time and to interact with your friends and neighbors.
Please come be a part of it. Join the group. There's no cost and there's no hidden agenda. And for it to work, we need you and others to participate.
Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Tell your relatives. Tell everybody you know. Bring them all along. The idea isn't for us to run a news page on Facebook. The idea is for us to host an independent community as a partnership with you and your friends and your neighbors.
You'll see some of the Daily Herald on Suburban Wildlife. You'll even have a chance to help us research some of those stories.
You'll also see some of Suburban Wildlife in the Daily Herald because a lot of what starts there will maybe even end in the paper.
But we hope it will be a whole lot more than that.
We hope it will be a place for advice, for tips, for conversation, for photos, for helping all us live more amenably with the wildlife in our midst.
How's it all going to work? Well, that's part of the fun of getting there. We've got some ideas, but they're just a starting point. We're the host, but we don't intend to run the show. What it becomes will be up to you and the suburban community.
We're excited about the possibilities!
Chat. Share. Engage.
So please come be a part of Suburban Wildlife.
As always, thanks for reading.