Wells Branch Wild Conservancy Update
Wells Branch Wild Conservancy (WBWC) has great news to share! Our community has achieved 50% of our goal to have 200 properties certified as wildlife habitats. Today we have 108 wildlife habitats in Wells Branch. We have added 94 habitats since May 2023. To celebrate our progress, we are hosting an appreciation event for everyone who has certified their properties, volunteered, or otherwise supported Wells Branch Wild Conservancy! Please join us at 3 pm, October 20th at the Community Center (register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S3NVCZV).
In addition to our progress towards our certification goal, WBWC is now a registered 501c3 non-profit organization. We could not have achieved this without the generous financial donations from the community and hours of volunteering. Once again, thank you! For those of you just learning about WBWC, our mission is to lead, inspire, and engage our community in stewardship of a healthy and sustainable ecosystem. To that end, we are asking residents to certify their properties as wildlife habitats via the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife program. This self-certification specifies that your habitat
provides food, water, cover, a place to raise young, and employs sustainable practices.
To learn more about the program and to certify your habitat, visit nwf.org/garden. Having a wildlife habitat has many benefits such as enjoying visits by pollinators, reduced watering, and less leaf bagging. However, by joining forces with the 108 of your neighbors who have
already certified we can send a positive message to the remainder of our community and community leaders that sustainable practices, wildlife, and biodiversity are important values and that we need to conserve the nature we have and promote changes that will help us enjoy the benefits that a healthy ecosystem provides us.
To learn more, join us at our monthly meeting at the Wells Branch Recreation Center. We meet on the second Saturday of every month at 9 am. If you have any questions about certification or about WBWC, feel free to contact me at jdzurenko@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram (wellsbranchwild). Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wellsbranchwild.
– Jill Douglass