[Pollinator] Pollinator Action Opportunity-Group Letter to Farm Bill Conferees. Deadline Aug 17

Wed Aug 8 08:24:15 PDT 2018

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Express your Organization's Support for 2018 Farm Bill
Pollinator-Specific Provisions

 <https://goo.gl/forms/JqVt4YqFJEqdMsx92> Click Here to add your
organization name as a signatory to the group letter to conferees 

(Organizations of all types and sizes welcome!).  

DEADLINE:          Friday, August 17.

Background:

*	Group Letter
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RtIfAR182bo7otYA7dOR936N6nQfCvdK-rph_zh6A3
4/edit?usp=sharing>  text is pasted below.

*	Feel free to SHARE with contacts who may be interested.

*	Key provision is Sec. 7209 (d) "Pollinator Protection" of the
Senate-passed farm bill.  

*	Click Here
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ofYwugxH9DjW06WSbaJnZXbyFhNF9bN/view?usp=
sharing>  for language.

*	Click Here
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=11nfKnOmGFTH6D1qfFx2AVk-iVqlXwqVG>  for
Pollinator Partnership (P2) statement to conferees.

GROUP LETTER

RE:  Support for Pollinator Provisions in 2018 Farm Bill Conference

Dear Senators Roberts and Stabenow and Congressmen Conaway and Peterson:

The undersigned urge conferees to maximize pollinator-beneficial provisions
in the final conference report of the 2018 farm bill.  

We urge that Sec. 7209 (d) "Pollinator Protection" in the Senate-passed bill
be included in the final legislation.  This important provision on
pollinator research reconstitutes the interagency Pollinator Health Task
Force and directs the chief scientist at USDA to coordinate research on
honey bees and other pollinators.  The Task Force language provides fresh
impetus to the collaborative, interagency process that has already yielded
significant, positive benefits for pollinator health.  Coordinating
pollinator research at USDA across agencies helps ensure maximum
effectiveness when investing scarce funding in advancing honey bee and
pollinator health objectives.  

We appreciate that farm bill legislation passed by both the House and Senate
reauthorizes pollinator conservation and research provisions enacted in the
2008 and 2014 farm bills.  We urge that these provisions be retained in the
final conference report.

As the conferees work to resolve other differences, we urge that decisions
be made to advance conservation, research and other policies, programs and
funding in ways that best help farmers and ranchers share their landscapes
in providing abundant, safe pollinator habitat and forage for honey bees and
native pollinators, including monarchs.

Thank you for your consideration of this important request.

Sincerely,

            [LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS]

CC:  Conferees

R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall

Director of Public Affairs

(703) 509-4746

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