Our home is in the hills surrounded by the Shrub Steppe, but we are near the Intermountain Cascade habitat. We have a couple meadows we restored when the house was built. They are primarily bunch grass, with some wildflowers throughout. I harvest seeds outside the fields and bring them into the meadows. Around the yard nearest the house we probably have purchased $2000 or more in native plants from a local native plant nursery.
I also love plants so other things have snuck in, such as lavender and salvias that honeybees from elsewhere have discovered, but also useful to Bumble bees, and other things like Swallowtail butterflies. I chose a lot of hummingbird flowers, one is a local penstemon, but I also have some SW penstemons and zauschneria that they love.
We live in a fire prone area so there are no trees near the house, but we do have a windbreak that is a loose hedge made up of local shrubs. We also have a loose row of trees on one edge to hide the neighbors and that's a mix of evergreens, aspen, hawthorn, and willows.
The herbicides are my husband's, and he uses them to keep the asphalt and ditches cleaned out, but I weed the rest by hand. We lean toward xeric and water less than once a week, sometimes once a month, just to keep the grass nearest the house greener and to help the flowers to bloom more.
I am currently studying bees with an expert. I pay attention to native bees and look for them wherever I go. I have far more diversity than I see in town. My yard has much more insect life than the WSU demonstration garden. it is fascinating to see the difference.
I also have my garden mapped on Habitat Network. Have you considered working with them?