Where the Wild Things Are:National Wildlife Federation begins certifying wildlife-friendly landscape contractors

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Genevieve Schmidt works to leave areas of bare soil to provide a nesting place for bees in the gardens of her clients in Humboldt County, Calif. "Our California native bees are solitary nesters, so if you leave an area of hard-packed bare soil in thelandscape, these individual peaceful little bees will burrow this tiny little hole in the soil, live there and come out to pollinate our fruit trees and our vegetable gardens," says Schmidt.