The California Wildlife Habitat Garden: How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals by Nancy Bauer. University of California Press, published in 2012, 232 pp.

I stumbled across this book in the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore in Lee Vining, CA while visiting Mono Lake this summer. I'm committed to creating native plant and animal habitat on my 1 acre plot in Prunedale and I'm always on the lookout for books that help not only with plant selection, but habitat creation. While planting native California plants is a good move for their drought tolerance, adaptation to local climate, and low maintenance qualities, to create habitat that functions well as a place for refuge, foraging, and...