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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">New program launched to help honey bees - U.S. Bee Buffer Project</span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0px 0px 0.4em;line-height:1.3em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Let’s help the honey bees.</font></h1>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">The U.S. Bee Buffer Project is a Pollinator Partnership (P2) initiative, sponsored by The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation and is looking for partners: farmers, ranchers, foresters, and land managers and owners to take part in the U.S. Bee Buffer Project. We’re creating a foraging habitat of pollen and nectar sources — land dedicated to honey bee health in California and North Carolina. We need your help.</span></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0px 0px 1em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bees will benefit.</font></h1>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Beekeepers name the leading cause for winter mortality of their honey bee colonies as starvation. In 2012-2013 the nationwide winter loss was a staggering 31.3%. Establishing dedicated Bee Buffers will support colony survival.</span></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:2em 0px 0em;line-height:1.3em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Participants benefit.</font></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The U.S. Bee Buffer Project has a lot to offer qualified participants:</span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Leadership participation in a nation-wide effort to support honey bees</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The potential to enrich your soil, reduce an invasive plant species and enhance wildlife habitat</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Free seeds and planting information</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Supplemental pollination of all flowering plants</span></span></li>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Are you interested in growing a Bee Buffer?</i></span></span></p>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Questions? Contact Mary Byrne, P2's Plant Ecologist, at <a href="mailto:mb@pollinator.org?subject=Bee%20Buffer%20Inquiry" target="_blank">MB@Pollinator.org</a></span></span></font><br>
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