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<DIV><EM>As a follow on to the story of disappearing bumble bees in Kansas, R.
Kasten Dumroese writes:</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>Folks may also be interested to know that the summer issue of Native
Plants<BR>Journal (vol 9, #2), which should be off the press in about 6 weeks,
will<BR>have a nice article on how to encourage native pollinators. It's
a<BR>compilation of several National Agroforestry Center Notes that
were<BR>developed in collaboration with the Xerces Society.<BR><BR>The NAC Notes
(32 through 35) are available as PDFs at<BR>http://www.unl.edu/nac and more info
is also available from the Xerces<BR>Society at
http://www.xerces.org<BR><BR>And, if you haven't already subscribed to the
Native Plants Journal....<BR>http://iupjournals.org/npj<BR><BR>Kas<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face="Gill Sans MT" size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10">Laurie Davies Adams<BR>Executive Director<BR><B>Pollinator
Partnership </B><BR>423 Washington Street, 5th floor<BR>San Francisco, CA
94111<BR>415-362-1137</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
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color=#0000ff size=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></B></FONT><FONT lang=0
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PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><A
href="http://www.nappc.org/">www.nappc.org</A><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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PTSIZE="12"><B><I>National Pollinator Week is June 22-28, 2008. <BR>Beecome
involved at <A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></I></FONT></B></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. <A title="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002" href="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002" target="_blank">Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>