[Pollinator] CRP aims to create 2, 500 acres of pollinator habitat in Lower Michigan

[Ladadams at aol.com]

TRAVERSE CITY -- Landowners in several northern Michigan counties are  
eligible for financial incentives for creating habitats for native pollinators  
through a new program in the federal 2008 Farm Bill. 
The new Conservation Reserve Program aims to create 2,500 acres of pollinator 
 habitat in 22 western Lower Michigan counties including Benzie, Grand 
Traverse,  Charlevoix, Emmet, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee and Wexford.  
Landowners may receive 90 to 100 percent of the cost for converting crop land 
 into wildlife habitat, and receive rental payments for the land for 10 to 15 
 years. 
"There has been a documented decline in many native pollinators such as  
bumblebees," said Lynn Sampson, a biologist for the U.S. Department of  
Agriculture. "The decline of eastern honeybees due to colony collapse disorder  has been 
a wake-up call to the importance of pollinators to our food  supply." 
The program requires a minimum two-acre habitat plot at least 100 feet wide  
planted with a variety of grasses, flowers and flowering shrubs.  
More information is available from the local USDA office at (231)  941-0951.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Laurie Davies Adams
Executive Director
Pollinator  Partnership 
423 Washington Street, 5th floor
San Francisco, CA  94111
415-362-1137
LDA at pollinator.org

_www.pollinator.org_ (http://www.pollinator.org/) 

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National Pollinator Week is June 22-28, 2009. 
Beecome  involved at _www.pollinator.org_ (http://www.pollinator.org/) 



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