Are You a Habitat Hero?

We are starting a Habitat Hero Program to help Albany County residents improve their landscape to benefit birds, pollinators, and other wildlife!

The following article was originally posted on our blog in 2015.  Now that we are starting a Laramie-based Habitat Hero program, we thought our readers might be interested in revisiting the 2015 post!

Habitat Heroes are people who practice a form of landscape stewardship, called ‘wildscaping’ - landscaping designed to attract and benefit birds, pollinators and other wildlife. Whether the landscape you tend is a residential yard, a few pots on a balcony, a public park, or schoolyard garden, Habitat Heroes believe in growing a healthy community. By combating the loss of open spaces and creating green corridors that link your wildscape to larger natural areas by providing habitat for wildlife we can feel good about doing something positive for ourselves, the environment and our wild friends.

Take part in the Audubon Rockies Habitat Hero program to provide resources for birds and other wildlife!  [2024 note: stay tuned to learn more about the Laramie-based program!]

Spooky Kids and Families Event - Saturday, November 2

American Goldfinch, Photo courtesy of
Laramie Audubon Society Member Heather Johnson

Let’s make spooky season last longer! 

For our final scavenger hunt** of 2024, think of what we see at Halloween - bats, black cats, owls, witches, skeletons, spiders and more. All of these will be on our scavenger hunt list. 

We will meet at the Bandshell in the SW corner of Washington Park at 9 a.m. to learn about the items on our list, and then will go hunting for them! All kids and families will pick a craft to assemble at home or, if weather is good, at the Park if preferred. 

This year we will make crows, bats or black cats!  

** Although November 2nd is our final scavenger hunt, there are two additional Kids and Families events scheduled in 2024 - November 16th and December 21st.  See our Events page for more information.

(THIS IS A DIFFERENT DATE THAN ORIGINALLY ANNOUNCED - THIS EVENT IS NOW ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd)