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Spring 2023 Issue

In Full Bloom: 50 Years of Garden for Wildlife

  • Lisa Moore, Editorial Director
  • National Wildlife
  • Mar 31, 2023

On the cover: Wings outstretched, a viceroy butterfly graces a purple coneflower, a vital source of pollen for myriad insects. (Photo by Gerry Legere/500PX/Getty Images)

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Featured Stories

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It's My Nature: Beauty and the Buzz

Flower farmer Dee Hall is growing a neighborhood haven for wildlife— and inspiring other Black floral entrepreneurs
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Shelter from the Storm

In South Carolina, conservationists provide much-needed nesting habitat for declining prothonotary warblers
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Field Work

Read the latest updates from the National Wildlife Federation
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Next Generation

Kedar Narayan
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Down to Earth

Peaceful conservation burials benefit the planet—a final gift from loved ones
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Delmarvalous

The Delmarva fox squirrel came back from the edge of extinction—and it’s still gaining ground
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In the Pines

Georgia landowner advances longleaf pine initiative
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In Full Bloom

Garden for Wildlife celebrates 50 years
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Just Ask Me

... if you want to know which flowers are best to help bumble bees
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Out of Sync

As climate change shifts the timing of life-cycle events, mismatches between species threaten wildlife from whales to birds and butterflies
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Editor's Note

Spring’s Season of Surprise
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President's View

Planting for the Planet
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From Our Photo Contest Archive

Photograph by Lori Franzen
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Meet Our Winners

Garden for Wildlife’s 2022 Photo Contest
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Nature's Witness

A Prickly Pleasure

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Scope

Simple nests breed success, benefits of bull’s-eyes and more

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Footprint

Birds Watching
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Pulse of the Planet

National Wildlife’s 2022 Photo Contest Winners
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Honorable Mentions

National Wildlife’s 2022 Photo Contest

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People's Choice Award

National Wildlife’s 2022 Photo Contest

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In Full Bloom

  • Doreen Cubie
  • Gardening
  • March 31, 2023

Garden for Wildlife celebrates 50 years

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Just Ask Me

  • Text By Laura Tangley // Photographs By Clay Bolt
  • Animals
  • March 31, 2023

... if you want to know which flowers are best to help bumble bees

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An image of a large flock of Western Sandpipers flying low over mudflats where they feed on worms, insects and crustaceans in the spring, in Copper River Delta, Alaska.

Out of Sync

  • Leslie Allen
  • Conservation
  • March 31, 2023

As climate change shifts the timing of life-cycle events, mismatches between species threaten wildli...

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An image of a pair of Willie wagtails at their nest, one incubating, in Papua New Guinea.

Scope

  • Mark Wexler
  • Animals
  • March 31, 2023

Simple nests breed success, benefits of bull’s-eyes and more

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Decline of an Ancient Mariner

  • Laura Tangley
  • Animals
  • December 30, 2022

Plagued by modern threats, prehistoric horseshoe crabs are linchpins in marine and terrestrial food ...

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Many Songs Lifting Spirits

  • Mark Wexler
  • Nature and Health
  • December 30, 2022

People are happier when they spend time with a diversity of bird species

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An image of Dee Hall in a garden.

It's My Nature: Beauty and the Buzz

  • Lynne Warren
  • Gardening
  • March 31, 2023

Flower farmer Dee Hall is growing a neighborhood haven for wildlife— and inspiring other Black flora...

Read More
An image of Anna’s Hummingbird, the Grand prize winner of the fifth annual Garden for Wildlife Photo Contest.

Meet Our Winners

  • Lisa Moore
  • Garden Photography
  • March 31, 2023

Garden for Wildlife’s 2022 Photo Contest

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Nature's Witness

  • Photograph by Melissa Groo
  • PhotoZone
  • March 31, 2023

A Prickly Pleasure

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Footprint

  • Lynne Warren, Art By Jenny Kendler
  • PhotoZone
  • March 31, 2023

Birds Watching

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