Wake Audubon Meeting: Building Big Habitat in Small Spaces
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Wake Audubon Monthly Meeting: Building Big Habitat in Small Spaces
(Meeting is In Person and Zoom)
Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Nature Research Center, 121 W. Jones St., Raleigh, 4th floor conference room
Location: In-person + Zoom
Place: In-person + Virtual
- Location: NC Museum of Natural Sciences: Nature Research Center, 121 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC - 4th floor meeting room
Park (for free after 6:30 pm) and walk to the main museum entrance on Jones Street, just to the right of the giant globe. Since the NCSM is closed at night, someone will be at the door ONLY from 7 to 7:45 to let you in, so be on time. Take the elevator to the fourth floor meeting room. The east-facing entrance to the "old wing" of the museum will not be used. If you feel unwell, please stay home and enjoy our presentation over Zoom.
https://www.zoom.us/join
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- Meeting code: 831 3786 5298
- Password: 4Birds
Topic: The environment we share is a system, a kind of ecological machine made up of interdependent parts. Remove even the smallest gear, and the system’s function may be compromised, its resiliency reduced. Urban infill, suburban residential, and small-scale commercial landscapes make up the everyday environments most of us inhabit. Though smaller than parks or campuses, these landscapes remain vital components of the system, shaping it (and us) for better or worse. For practitioners and home gardeners working on projects of an acre or less, this scale offers a distinct advantage: the ability to observe, experiment and refine the system through responsive management, boosting one person's ability to efficiently create resources that serve specific animals, insects, or microbial species that may otherwise remain unsupported by the landscapes around them. Join landscape architect Preston Montague for a conversation about small projects with big ecosystem service potential. He’ll share habitat-focused residential projects built on modest budgets—the methods, successes and challenges—and the strategies that ultimately enabled him to scale up his habitat-building work from residential to municipal scale.
Speaker: Preston Montague is a landscape architect and artist working to strengthen relationships between people and the natural world. His environmental design studio deploys art, horticulture and landscape architecture in the service of building places that have meaning and ecological depth. When not in the studio, Preston enjoys teaching landscape architecture at North Carolina A&T State University and hiking the wilder places. www.prestonmontague.com
Location: In-person + Zoom
Place: In-person + Virtual
- Location: NC Museum of Natural Sciences: Nature Research Center, 121 W Jones St, Raleigh, NC - 4th floor meeting room
Park (for free after 6:30 pm) and walk to the main museum entrance on Jones Street, just to the right of the giant globe. Since the NCSM is closed at night, someone will be at the door ONLY from 7 to 7:45 to let you in, so be on time. Take the elevator to the fourth floor meeting room. The east-facing entrance to the "old wing" of the museum will not be used. If you feel unwell, please stay home and enjoy our presentation over Zoom.
https://www.zoom.us/join
zoom
- Meeting code: 831 3786 5298
- Password: 4Birds
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*Last updated 2026-03-02 by Beegle
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