[Pollinator] Invitation to POLLINATOR HEALTH and POLICIES, National Pollinator Week Briefing (4 PM-RSVP) & Break (4:45 PM), 1302 LHOB.

[Tom Van Arsdall]

Hi, all!  Happy National Pollinator Week!

 

If you’re in the DC area, you are welcome to attend the June 23 Pollinator
Briefing & Break, invitation below.  Note also the June 24 Pollinator
Celebration at USDA.

 

Anyone can help by forwarding this information to others who may be
interested.  

 

Click Here <http://pollinator.org/PDFs/NPW/PW2011BriefingFlier.pdf>  for
Briefing Flier.

 

Click Here <http://pollinator.org/media.htm>  for NPW Media Release.

 

Progress toward June 23 introduction of the Highways BEE Act
<http://pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm>  continues to go well.  Expressions of
support are coming in from hundreds of organizations and individuals from
across the nation, and responses continue to come in.  

 

Tom VA

 

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POLLINATOR HEALTH and POLICIES

 

Pollinator Partnership National Pollinator Week Briefing 

 

Thursday, June 23, 2011, 4:00 PM, 1302 Longworth House Office Building

·         4:00 to 4:45—Briefing (program below)

RSVP
<mailto:kh at pollinator.org?subject=YES,%20I%20plan%20to%20attend%20the%20June
%2023%20Pollinator%20Briefing%20@%204%20PM>  to Attend the Briefing by
c.o.b. Wednesday, June 22

 

·         4:45 to 5:30—Exhibits, Information, and Pollinator Treats
(Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream & Burt’s Bees® Lip Balm)

                                                       

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   Save the Bees!

 

Tentative Briefing Program  Click Here
<http://pollinator.org/PDFs/NPW/PW2011BriefingFlier.pdf>  for Briefing Flier

·         Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus (CP2C) Welcome, and
Introduction of the Highways BEE Act <http://pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm> 

Hon Alcee L. Hastings, CP2C Co-Chair

Hon Timothy V. Johnson, CP2C Co-Chair

·         Pollinator Initiatives and National Pollinator Week
<http://pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2011.htm> 

Laurie Davies Adams, Executive Director, Pollinator Partnership

·         Pollinator Research

Dr. Jeff Pettis, Research Leader, USDA Agricultural Research Service  

·         EPA’s Pollinator Protection Program

Don Brady, U.S. EPA-Invited

·         Pollinator Conservation

·         Corporate Approaches to Protecting Pollinators and Their Habitats

Robert Johnson, President, Wildlife Habitat Council 

Agency Representatives Will Be Available to Answer Questions 

 

You are also invited to a Pollinator Celebration on Friday, June 24 from
10-2.

·         Pollinator activities and exhibits highlighting the work of USDA
agencies, other federal agencies and NGO’s.

·         At USDA next to People’s Garden and Farmer’s Market, Smithsonian
Mall Metro exit.

·         Open to the Public. 

 

For information about National Pollinator Week visit
http://www.pollinator.org. 

 

R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Pollinator Partnership Director of Public
Affairs

   Van Arsdall & Associates Inc.

   (703) 509-4746

   mailto:tva at pollinator.org or mailto:tom at vanarsdall.com

   Pollinator Partnership <http://www.pollinator.org/> 

         <http://pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2011.htm> 

 

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