LEARN TO BUILD A BACKYARD WILDLIFE PONDIN ONE WEEKFOR LESS THAN $300 Observe wildlife you otherwise wouldnt see: watch frogs and dragonflies in your own backyard. Provide the one essential habitat element that benefits all wildlife: water. In this easy to follow do-it-yourself booklet, you will learn how the author built a backyard wildlife pond during a one-week vacation, for less than $300, as part of a plan to have a certified backyard wildlife habitat. Color photos illustrate each step of the pond building instructions, including: choosing a pond locationdesigning a pond that benefits the most wildlifedigging and leveling the pondinstalling padding to protect the linerbuying and installing the linerfilling the pond with soil, rocks, and waterand adding rocks around the edges. Although many sources exist about building traditional ponds, there is little information about building a low-maintenance, natural pond specifically intended to be beneficial to wildlife (with soil in the bottom and no pump). This book will show you how to easily create this type of pond and welcome frogs, dragonflies, tadpoles, snails, bathing birds, and other creatures where you can observe them in your own yard. A wildlife pond is cheaper to build and easier to maintain than other types of backyard ponds: It doesnt need an expensive pump.Plants are grown directly in soil at the bottom of the pond, rather than in pots that need to be removed each Winter and repotted each Spring.Instead of goldfish provided by humans, it is stocked by Nature with local wildlife.Once it achieves a balanced state that mimics natural ponds, it needs very little input from humans. In addition to the step-by-step pond building instructions, sections are included on: types of pond plants, including edible arrowheadnatural pond maintenancehow to keep the pond unfrozen in Winterhow to patch a hole in the linerwildlife seen at the pond. Join the author on her adventure and discover the joys of having your own backyard wildlife pond