Join us for the next installment of Science At Home! The Habitat Check-in with Wildr Places is a free webinar premiering on November 18, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. central.
Wildr Places’ team shares a practical, science-informed framework for evaluating a home landscape, identifying its greatest habitat opportunities, and choosing actions that support more plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife.
The Habitat Check-in
Speaker: Zoe Evans
Organization: Wildr Places
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Central | 5 p.m. Mountain | 4 p.m. Pacific
Location: Online, join the premiere on YouTube and participate in the live chat!
Link provided with registration. This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants after the premiere.
Cost: Free
About the Webinar
Join Wild Ones and Zoe Evans, Cornell Master Naturalist and VP of Education & Partnership at Wildr Places, on November 18th for a practical look at how to assess the habitat value of the place you live. Rather than focusing on a single garden project or plant list, Zoe will walk through the interconnected pieces that make a landscape function as habitat, from native plants and layers of vegetation to water, shelter, healthy management practices, and the small signs that wildlife is already responding.
You’ll learn how to look at your own outdoor space through an ecological lens, recognize what you’re already doing well, spot opportunities for improvement, and choose realistic next steps based on your place and your priorities.
Along the way, Zoe will demonstrate tools to show how you can document the plants and habitat features you already have, keep track of invasives and habitat-friendly practices, understand the wildlife your plants can support, and follow the ecological changes in your own place over time.
Whether you’re just getting started or have been growing habitat for years, you’ll leave with a clearer picture of what makes a healthy habitat and what you can do next to make your own place a little wilder.
What You’ll Learn
- What makes an outdoor space valuable for wildlife
- How to look at your own outdoor space through an ecological lens
- Recognize what you’re already doing well
- Spot opportunities for improvement
- Choose realistic next steps based on your place and your priorities
About the Presenter
Zoe Evans is a Master Naturalist, ecological educator, and VP of Education & Partnerships at Wildr Places, where she develops tools and programs that help people turn an interest in helping nature into confident, practical action at home.
With a background in neurobiology and translational science, Zoe is especially interested in the intersection of ecology and human behavior: what motivates people to act, what gets in the way, and how better tools, education, and experiences can make ecological stewardship feel more achievable.
She is also the co-founder of Design Your Wild, where she teaches homeowners how to create landscapes that support biodiversity while remaining beautiful, functional, and enjoyable places to live. Beyond residential landscapes, Zoe is actively involved in watershed conservation, environmental policy, and ecological hunting. She co-founded Forest Defense: Ecological Hunting Alliance, an initiative focused on addressing the impacts of deer overbrowsing on forest health.
Across her work, Zoe brings together science, education, technology, and plenty of hands-on experience in the dirt to help people better understand the ecosystems around them and take meaningful action where they live.
Wildr Places is a free app that helps people understand, improve, and track the habitat value of the places where they live.
Register
The Habitat Check in
Speakers: Zoe Evans, Wildr Places
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Central | 5 p.m. Mountain | 4 p.m. Pacific
Location: Online, join the premiere on YouTube and participate in the live chat!
Link provided with registration. This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants after the premiere.
About Science at Home
Research-backed actions for healthier home landscapes.
Wild Ones’ Science at Home series brings together national experts to show how conservation science can guide practical native landscaping choices that benefit wildlife, people, and the planet.
Native plants are the foundation. By understanding the relationships among plants, wildlife, soil, water, and ecological processes, we can create landscapes that do more.
Wild Ones connects people and native plants for a healthy planet through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.