A Grasslands for Wildlife Workshop will be held at the Lehigh Valley Zoo on April 5 to learn what steps landowners can take to promote grassland habitat for wildlife.

The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Lehigh Valley Greenways Grasslands Partnership and is being hosted by the Lehigh Valley Zoo and the Wildlands Conservancy.

Barn owls, songbirds, gamebirds, butterflies and many other grassland wildlife are disappearing at an alarming rate due to rapid development and the loss of field habitat.

Presentations will include land preservation by the Wildlands Conservancy, the Game Commission’s Barn Owl initiative, grassland wildlife by Pennsylvania Audubon, American Kestrel nesting box project, warm-season grasses as biofuel by Agri-Dynamics, grasslands projects at Grand Central Sanitary Landfill and the Lehigh Gap Nature Center and a tour of the grasslands project at Trexler Nature Preserve.

There will also be an exhibit on Cavity Nesters of Northampton County with a live Barn Owl and American Kestrel.

There is a $10 cost for the workshop, which includes refreshments and lunch.

Registration is required. To register and for more information contact the Wildlands Conservancy at 610-965-4397 ext. 10.

3/28/2008