Welcome to the Wildlife Habitat Council Members Only Pages

The Members Only pages are one of the many benefits available to you through your involvement with WHC. This online site is a great resource for contacting facilities in your area or industry for information or recommendations on reaching out to your community or supplementing your wildlife habitat program. 

More great benefits of membership are WHC features stories on member accomplishments and commitments to wildlife habitat restoration and enhancement in various publications. The Registry of Certified & Internationally Accredited Corporate Wildlife Habitat Programs recognizes commendable wildlife habitat management and environmental education programs at individual sites.

This resource is for members only. As a benefit of WHC membership, we agree to only distribute this private information among paid members, and in turn ask that you do not share or sell this information to non-members. Please contact publications@wildlifehc.org for the password.

A frog pauses in the grass at Oldcastle Materials' Montpelier North Wildlife Habitat Site.

The Shelly Company - Findlay Division, an Oldcastle Materials company, Montpelier North Wildlife Habitat Site was recognized by the Wildlife Habitat Council as the 2009 Rookie of the Year, which goes to one newly certified program each year, and exemplifies a superior wildlife habitat program.

The 70-acre Montpelier North Wildlife Habitat Site, a past sand & gravel mining operation, is located in a rural area outside of Montpelier, Ohio. The site is located half a mile north of the St. Joseph River and five miles south of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Lake La Su An Wildlife Area. The wildlife team works to enhance the existing habitat on the site for a variety of wildlife through a number of projects.

The wildlife team planted five acres of cool season grasses in 2008 and added an additional 10 acres of native warm season grasses in 2009 to expand grassland habitat on site, which are on the decline in Ohio. The eastern shoreline was graded and slopes where enhanced to improve wildlife access to the 50-acre lake, which is partially located on site, and grasses were planted on the slopes to control erosion. The lake was further enhanced for wildlife with the addition of basking logs, which are valuable to a number of wildlife species, including frogs, turtles and waterfowl. The wildlife team also increased habitat for native pollinator species by installing a water feature, basking rocks, logs and planting an acre of wildflowers in 2009.

The site hosted its first annual Wildlife at Work day in 2009, during which 100 saplings of native trees were planted. The wildlife team has also transformed a building on the site into a Wildlife Learning Center, which they plan to use for environmental education opportunities in the future.

How can you become involved? Send us your site stories, photos, accomplishments and even Adobe formatted newsletters, which we will post online.

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