Backyard Habitat
Backyard Wildlife Corridors Program
The Backyard Habitat program was started to encourage residents and businesses to provide safe spaces (micro-ecosystems) for local and migrating wildlife. When natural areas are cleared to create farms, homes, and commercial development, wildlife (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects) still need suitable habitats to live in and migrate through.
The Backyard Wildlife Corridors program aims to locate and grow current local wildlife habitat spaces that link to become sustainable wildlife corridors. The Goshen Environmental Resilience Department encourages residents to register their wildlife habitat space for the mapping project.
The resulting map will be available to everyone. There will be opportunities to select certain wildlife species, such as Monarch caterpillars, which eat milkweeds exclusively, and see their corresponding habitat. No personal identifiers will be included. Please participate by adding your habitat space to the database. Mapping allows you and others to see where critical habitat corridors are.
Do you have a backyard habitat?
Register your habitat space to help us identify wildlife corridors that go through the city.
See the map! coming soon
Backyard Habitat FAQs
