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Nature > Birds 

• How To Care for an Abandoned Nestling  This long answer is at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. The short answer is DON'T.
  
• How To make a bird home.  This online pamphlet from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 'Homes for Birds' covering birds you can attract to nest boxes, selecting a house, choosing materials, design, placement, protection, etc.
  
• How To make predator guards for bird feeders or houses.  This link leads to a page from "Building Nest Structures, Feeders, and Photo Blinds for North Dakota Wildlife." by Chris Grondahl and John Dockter, on the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center website. The entire online book  can be downloaded in PDF format.
  
• How To make a suet feeder from hardware cloth.  Another page from "Building Nest Structures, Feeders, and Photo Blinds for North Dakota Wildlife." 
  
• How To prevent woodpeckers from damaging my house.  Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center refers you to three internet articles on the subject and give additional guidance.
  
• How To select and maintain a backyard bird feeder.  Backyard Bird Feeding' Online pamphlet covering backyard feeder selection and maintenance from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  
• How To watch a live eagles nest on webcam.  The cam is focused on the nest of a pair of wild eagles at Reelfoot Lake State Park's Visitor's Center.
  
  

Nature > Insects > Butterflies and Moths

• How To raise butterflies and moths.  Many butterfly and moth species can easily be raised in wide-mouth gallon jars and 1- or 2- gallon aquarium bowls. This article from the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center explains which species, what food to supply, as well as ways to protect them from predators out of doors. etc.
  

Nature > Ducks

• How To deal with ducks nesting in, on, or around your home.  This is a more common problem than you might think. Read "Help...There's A Duck Nest In My Flower Pot!" at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. I can't resist adding this quote from the article " They do the deed in the darndest places...on patios, in flowerpots, on second story decks, and on or beside front porches. And then some of them just lay eggs and don't sit on them, or they roll them into the woodpile and then, believe it or not, they knock on the front door and beg for food like a dog that has just accomplished some miraculous feat, like finally sitting down on command. "
  

Nature > Miscellaneous

• How To Sea-Monkey Worship Page Here you'll learn the secrets of proper care and treatment of sea monkeys, like "don’t lie", and "don't give them bananas". A very fun site.
  

Nature > Wildlife 

• How To care for a frog or toad.  Of course it's best to leave it free, but if your child has found one and fallen in love, here's the best way to take care of it according to Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.
  
• How To care for a lizard.  According to Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center most lizards are too active to be kept in a terrarium, but we know there are at least a few exceptions. Here's the basics of How To.
  
• How To care for a salamander.  According to Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center "Salamanders make one of the best amphibians to keep in a terrarium."
  
• How To care for a snake.  You will have to check federal and state law on the legality of keeping a particular snake species in your area first. 
  
• How To make a barrel feeder for wildlife.  An easy and helpful project. A page from  "Building Nest Structures, Feeders, and Photo Blinds for North Dakota Wildlife" entire online book can be downloaded in PDF format.

Science 

• How To do things with a nucleic acid or peptide sequence.  This How To involves RNA DNA research and the specialized search engines used in this type of research on the web. Scientists are able to enter the sequence they are investigating and find out what information has already been gathered on it, or how to translate it into a protein sequence format if I understand correctly.
  
• How To how to detect an earthquake epicenter, determine Richter magnitude tutorial.  How to detect an earthquake epicenter, determine Richter magnitude - an interactive tutorial that helps students understand how the epicenters of earthquakes are located from seismograms and how their Richter magnitudes are determined. Part of the ongoing project Virtual Courseware for Science Education. 
  
• How To Succeed in Physical Science.  Unlike most physical science text books this one has minimal mathematics "so that you can concentrate on what happens and why it happens, as opposed to abstract equations used for predicting scientific events." Once you understand this the mathematics make a lot more sense and are much easier to learn. One of the topics covered in this course is "The Physics of Computer Games"   
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