The Three Secrets of a Healthy Stream

By Josh Vanbrakle
Published on April 16, 2018
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Keeping your streams healthy will help bring more wildlife to your yard.
Keeping your streams healthy will help bring more wildlife to your yard.
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“Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard” by Josh VanBrakle gives practical approaches to brining wildlife into your backyard.
“Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard” by Josh VanBrakle gives practical approaches to brining wildlife into your backyard.

Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) by Josh VanBrakle presents 101 projects to help make your backyard more attractive to wildlife. Whether it be in the age of your plants and trees, or in the structure of your gardens, VanBrakle can help you design a yard to attract any of your favorite wild creatures. In the following excerpt, he explains the three Cs of maintaining a healthy stream in your yard.

The Three C’s of Healthy Streams

Streams come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny trickles to lazy rivers. As far as science defines it, even the mighty Mississippi River is a stream.

You probably don’t have anything as big as the Mississippi on your land, but you might have its beginnings, or the beginnings of some other river. Just because your streams are small, doesn’t mean they’re worthless. Small streams flow into larger streams, so what happens in those first few drops affects everyone and everything down the line. Even if your streams could never support a minnow, they still matter for wildlife.

But what makes a stream better or worse for animals? Generally speaking, if you want to attract creatures to your streams, focus on achieving the 3 C’s: clean, cold, and complex.

C #1: Clean

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