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• Homeowners unknowingly provide habitat and food for wildlife.

Strategies

• Provide educational opportunities and factual information through Web pages, brochures and links to other organizations through the City of Dublin Web site.

• When resident/wildlife conflicts arise, respond promptly through e-mail, phone and mailings.

• Nature Education Coordinator will maintain statistics and licensing, upholding all state and federal laws.

Policy 17: Manmade structures benefiting wildlife will be established and maintained when feasible.

Issues

• Decrease in specific types of habitat such as vernal pools and standing snags have caused decline in beneficial wildlife such as insect-eating tree swallows and eastern bluebirds.

• Human involvement has altered landscapes, causing decline in certain species.

• Many animals have daily and seasonal migration routes.

Strategies

• Install and maintain bluebird trails within parks and green spaces.

• Use volunteers when feasible to plant, install and maintain structures such as bluebird trails.

• Maintain dead trees unless they pose threat to human traffic.

• When dead trees must be cut, vary heights so some dead standing wood remains.

• Review ecological assessments and natural features before development, allowing for natural structures such as vernal pools and standing snags to remain.

• Allow some stands of woods to remain undeveloped, without trails.

• Allow for movement of wild animals by providing or maintaining natural corridors when feasible.

Policy 18: Land management, restoration and maintenance will occur whenever feasible to promote proper/healthy ecosystems and therefore wildlife populations;

ecological assessments will be used to determine overall health of areas, along with partnerships and resources of outside organizations

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