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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Good morning,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I will be speaking at Happy Tonics, Inc. Annual
Meeting on October 22. I want to share some pollinator corridors that exist next
to roads and highways with attendees. We created a native remnant tallgrass
prairie as a Monarch Butterfly Habitat and have many pollinating species in the
habitat. The highway, Route 63, is being enlarged and will come up right
next to the 1/2 acre habitat. One board member feels we should put lilac
along side the 40 foot narrow habitat as a privacy screen. I feel
that native shrubs will grow in time (ninebark, juneberry and
elderberry) and act as privacy screens. I don't want to put "non native"
scrubs along the highway side of the habitat. They spread by rhizomes. It will
defeat our purpose of demanding that the habitat remain true to being a restored
habitat of native plants. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Do you have any photographs of pollinator corridors
along roadways and highways so I can put a pictorial together and do a story
board of the movement across the USA to create pollinator corridors? I would be
happy to give you copyright credit and publish the idea on our Blogs and Website
with your permission.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Please respond with attached .jpegs. Please
write a caption so we can give credit to where the pollinator corridors are and
whom the photographer is.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thank you for your kind consideration.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mary Ellen Ryall</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Executive Director</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Happy Tonics, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
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