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<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Region 9 <SPAN lang=KO>¡­</SPAN>
10/07/2011</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><I>The Norway
Beach Visitor Center Naturalist focused on bees this summer, asking</I>
By: Melissa Rickers (<I>R09_Chippewa</I>)</SPAN> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Before traveling to northern Minnesota to work as the
summer Naturalist at the Norway Beach Visitor Center, Amanda Keith was a
college student in rural northeast Ohio. She was " a little obsessed
with honeybees". As part of a student-run campus program, she helped
maintain three hives and sold honey to the college community. She
learned to appreciate the bee's innate skills for foraging and producing
the most delicious honey.<BR><BR>Amanda was hired through the Student
Conservation Association program. As lead naturalist at a busy summer
Visitor Center, she led 8 programs each week, quickly learning about
Minnesota wildlife, Anishinabe culture, and native wildflowers. A month
into teaching environmental education programs, she began focusing on
bees again, asking "How could Minnesota have its plentiful wildflowers
and berries without honeybees?"<BR><BR>She discovered thirteen native
species of bumblebees that pollinate everything from bluebead lily to
blueberries, as well as many Minnesota food staples. Because of the bee
activities and displays at Norway Beach, we all began to noticing the
bumblebees hanging around the Forest. Even the Visitor Center front lawn
was covered with fuzzy bees as the clover bloomed! Bumblebees with neon
yellow, shaggy coats and others with bright orange, fuzzy stripes
(probably the common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens, and the
tri-colored bumblebee, B. ternarius) wandered from clover to clover. The
presence of the bees brought comfort to Amanda, so far away from home.
She noted "Even if new places are hard to get used to, there'll always
be bees". <BR><BR>Her bee programs were popular with Norway Beach
campers. There was "Build a Bee Condo", "The Bumblebee Shuffle" and
"Wildflower Pollinators". Who knew that building homes for bees out of
hollow reeds would be such a hit! Summer visitors learned that most
pollinating species, especially bumblebees, are in rapid decline because
of pesticides and habitat loss. For hands-on learning, the VIC installed
two small pollinator gardens, thanks to a pollinator grant obtained by
Forest botanist Tom Heutte. The gardens highlighted native wildflowers
and the insects that pollinate each species. <BR><BR>It was the summer
of bees. Amanda enjoyed the hikes and tours in a remarkable forest that
she had never known before. This Forest (and its bees) simply grew on
her. As an "outsider Ohioan," she said "I had the most to learn and am
glad to leave with such deep-felt appreciation for Minnesota's fuzzy
bugs." The garden at Norway Beach Visitor Center is one of four
pollinator gardens on the Forest, (including Cut Foot Sioux Visitor
Center, Blackduck and Deer River Ranger Stations. ) Though it is the
newest and smallest, the "Beach Garden" is already increasing our
awareness of local pollinators and sharpening our ability to identify 13
different bumblebees! <o:p></o:p></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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