Planting for Pollinators

Butterflies and other pollinators are in trouble. Loss of habitat and overuse of pesticides are the partly to blame. Our yards and roadsides are filled with invasive plants that provide no benefit to wildlife, yet crowd out the local plants that support those creatures. Our yards are filled with flowers grown for the commercial trade, but often lack the native flowers that butterflies rely on for food. You can help by planting for pollinators in your yard, at your local school or at other community spaces. Find out more about the plants that attract pollinators. 

Join a Bee Survey

It's not too late to join a bee survey. Anyone can participate. Can you spare ½ hour of your time this summer to walk around your yard, favorite park, meadow, hiking trail, etc. (basically anywhere there are flowering plants) and document what plants Bumble Bees are visiting? The USGS/FWS Native Bee Lab has developed a simple Plant/Bumble Bee Survey that permits anyone to survey what plants Bumble Bees use anywhere there are Bumble Bees (literally).
 
They call it “Ask a Bumble Bee.” Find out more here. 

Preserving Six Lakes

Your land trust is working as part of a coalition of like-minded individuals and groups that have come together to preserve and make the 100-acre wildlife and aquatic resource known as Six Lakes or "Powder Farm" available to the public. To find out more, please visit 6lakes.org.