Habitat Restoration to Benefit Pollinators

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Habitat Restorationto Benefit Pollinators

• Insert your installation name/logo and POC
  information

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Pollinators on Military Lands

• Questions you are likely to hear
• What is the problem?
• Why should I care?
• What is the impact to the mission?
• What is it going to cost me to protect
  pollinators?
• Where is this going to happen on
  base/post/station?
• Who really benefits from protecting pollinators /
  providing habitat for pollinators?

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Pollinators are in trouble!

• Why should I care?
• Fewer Pollinators
• ?
• Less pollination of flowers
• ?
• REDUCED production of fruits and vegetables
• FAILURE of native plant communities and habitat
  restoration projects
• LIMITED survival of endangered plants and
  animals.

Plant pollination by insects is essential to
human health, global food webs, and protection of
biodiversity. Pollination is a globally important
ecosystem service.
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Land management benefits pollinators

• There should be no change or minimal change to
  current land management techniques
• Prescribed Fire
• Pesticide Treatments
• Grazing
• Mowing
• Mission Demands
• Native Habitats / Refugia

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Land management benefits pollinatorsat
installation name

• Include information on three or four current land
  management practices at your installation that
  benefit pollinators, or insert specific
  information into previous slide.

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Creating habitat for pollinators
Urban Gardens can provide both nectar plants and
rearing areas.

• Plant Native species that have varying bloom
  periods.
• Provide access to water and nesting sites.
• Control or Remove Invasive species
• Limit use of pesticides/ chemicals

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How can installations provide habitat for
pollinators?

• Incorporate pollinators into INRMPs
• Maintain bare soil areas away from main base
• Monitor for pollinator species
• Create corridors between pollinator habitats and
  minimize fragmentation.
• EDUCATE base and housing personnel

Combining nesting sites with foraging areas
creates good native bee habitat.
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Pollinator Habitat Restorationat installation
name

• Insert specific suggestions and needs for your
  Commander here
• Include the resources that will be required and
  specific actions needed by the Commander

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Benefits to the Mission

• How will the implementation of your suggestions
  benefit your installations mission?

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For more information on pollinators

• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
  (www.nappc.org)
• Pollinator Partnership (www.pollinator.org)
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
  (www.xerces.org)
• U.S. Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
  (www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml
  )
• U.S. Fish Wildlife Service (www.fws.gov/Pollinat
  ors)
• United States Department of Agriculture
  (www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode5428
  0500)
• USDA National Agroforestry Center
  (www.unl.edu/nac/agroforestrynotes.htm)
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  Pollinators (pollinators.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
  )
• National Wildlife Federation Create a Certified
  Wildlife Habitat (www.nwf.org/backyard)
• Wildlife Habitat Council (www.wildlifehc.org/polli
  natorpractices/index.cfm)
• The Green Book Environmental Guidebook for
  Military Golf Courses (www.denix.osd.mil/portal/pa
  ge/portal/denix/environment/NR/conservation/Planni
  ngToolsHandbooksGuidelines/TheGreenBook)
• Pollinator Conservation Digital Library
  (pollinatorlibrary.org)
• Michigan State University Enhancing Beneficial
  Insects with Native Plants (nativeplants.msu.edu)
• Urban Bee Gardens (nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegar
  dens/index.html)
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
  (www.wildflower.org)
• Local Botanical gardens, Native Plant Societies,
  garden clubs

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Thank you. Questions?

• Insert your contact information here.