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hives on forestlands rile greens</h1>
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groups have petitioned the Forest Service to stop allowing
commercial honeybee hives on national forest lands without
more environmental review. </span><span class="credit"
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baseline;">An environmental group pressed the Forest Service
today to scale back the placement of commercial honeybee hives
on land it manages, calling the nonnative bees a potential
harm to other pollinators.</p>
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baseline;">In a formal petition to the agency, the Center for
Biological Diversity said the Forest Service should stop
granting streamlined permits to people who want to place
honeybee hives in national forests.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">"The science is clear that honeybees can present a
serious threat to native bees, thus having significant
environmental impacts," the group, joined by three other
organizations, said in the petition to Forest Service Chief
Vicki Christiansen and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">The Forest Service allows the placement of apiaries
on its lands through special use permits. Covered by
categorical exclusions from the National Environmental Policy
Act, the beekeeping permits don't require an environmental
impact statement, which might shed light on competition among
species and potential diseases the European-derived bees could
spread to native bees.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">During the past decade, the agency has approved
permits for about 900 hives. Officials are considering an
application for as many as 4,900 hives on national forests in
Utah, the petitioners said they learned through documents
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.</p>
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baseline;">A hive can contain between 10,000 and 60,000 bees,
according to the Center for Biological Diversity, meaning tens
of millions of honeybees could be introduced in national
forests.</p>
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baseline;">The Forest Service has promoted use of its lands
for honeybees since the Obama administration, which encouraged
agencies to aid both honeybees and native species.</p>
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baseline;">The Trump administration reaffirmed its commitment
in proposed changes to NEPA regulations, including categorical
exclusions with reduced requirements for public comment.</p>
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baseline;">Forest Service researchers have been studying the
potential impact of honeybees since 2017, in connection with
the Utah applications.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">Because of the danger of pesticides to bees,
federal agencies have been under pressure to make land
available in national forests, where pesticide use is less of
a factor, researchers from Brigham Young University told the
Forest Service in outlining the study's goals.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">In a news release, the CBD said it's sensitive to
the plight of commercial beekeepers, who are combating a host
of troubles including parasites that attack bees and the
dangers of certain pesticides used on farms.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The Forest Service declined to comment on the
petition. The agency also promotes native bees, including on a
bee-related webpage that touts more than 4,000 native species
and declares, "Bees are the champion pollinators!"</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The CBD puts the number of native species at around
3,600. Researchers say native bees are threatened by
disappearing habitat, pesticides and other factors; the
western bumblebee has seen a 93% decline in the last 20 years,
by some estimates.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"While viable populations still exist in Alaska and
east of the Cascades in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky Mountains,
the once common populations of central California, Oregon,
Washington and southern British Columbia have largely
disappeared," according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate
Conservation, which joined on the petition.</p>
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Others on the petition are the Grand Canyon Trust
and the Utah Native Plant Society.</p>
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