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Vol. 29, No. 3 | Summer 2025
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Happy Fall, HabiChatters!
The weather is cooling down, but our love of the outdoors never does – and we bet you feel the same! In between admiring leaves and dodging acorns, we hope to entice you with an autumnal offering of articles to keep your wild side fed.
We’d like to welcome many of you to the newsletter for the first time! It was wonderful meeting and speaking with so many of you at the Maryland State Fair this year, and most importantly it reminds us why we maintain the Wild Acres program; to help our fellow Marylanders care for the beautiful natural setting we are lucky enough to live in!
To that end, we have an article about a couple in Chestertown who have been getting their hands dirty to help native Maryland wildlife, plus an article on enjoying the season (and the outdoors in general) with low mobility. Then, placate your palate with an article on our favorite native fruit trees and perk up your ears for a guest writer’s article on acoustic monitoring of bats this past summer. There’s something for every sense this season!
Team Habichat
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Celebrating Stillness: Low Mobility Wildlife Appreciation
The world of outdoor recreation is vast and diverse in Maryland. Our residents live near natural spaces to enjoy biking, hiking, climbing, swimming, and other water sports - too many pursuits to list! That said, wildlife appreciation is often just as amazing (or even more rewarding) when you stay still. Read more.
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Natural Heritage Program Spotlight: Bat Study at Soldiers Delight
Read our guest writer Sadie Rozics’s recap of her summer data collection work and what the Department of Natural Resources found doing acoustic monitoring at Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area. Despite its rare habitat, Soldiers Delight had never been surveyed for bats before, and Sadie hoped hoped her project could help gather data for their summer surveys and inform future conservation efforts. She also shares practical ways anyone can support bat conservation. Read more
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Wild Acres in Action: A Beautiful Backyard Pond
Randall Cleaver first reached out to Wild Acres in October of 2023; he and wife Ashley Flory just purchased a historic house and wanted to install a meadow and backyard pond, and he knew that planting native will always mean the hardiest plants and the most wildlife attraction potential. Like many Wild Acres readers, he had already done some homework, but we sent him links with step-by-step instructions and recommended native plants for ponds. Recently we received a correspondence about his exciting success! Read more
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Native Plant Profile: Favored Fruit Trees
In the ever-human quest to connect to the land and to ourselves, many of us turn to food gardening. Getting your hands dirty as a way to figuratively and literally “touch grass” is as old as humanity itself, but what can you do to help our native wildlife at the same time? Native fruits to the rescue! Read more.
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Wild Acres is a voluntary program that encourages residents to create backyard wildlife habitat. For more tips and tricks, check out the HabiChat archives.
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