[Pollinator] Request for assistance - wet meadow plants & pollinators

[Kimberly Winter]

Hello NAPPC Partners & Friends:

Would anyone have advise/expertise to offer for this wetland restoration 
project?

"I'm working as a wildlife biologist with EDAW on a wetland restoration 
project in the Sierras. We plan to restore two seasonal wet meadows near 
Truckee.

Although our team's expertise lies in vertebrate and plant ecology, we want 
to be sure that invertebrates also benefit from the restoration. We would 
thus like to attract rare and/or beneficial insects to the site, and use 
plant species or other features in our restoration design that would
enhance insect survival and reproduction.

We would very much appreciate your guidance on which local pollinators or 
insects of conservation concern we should focus on, their host plant 
requirements, and any other plant interactions or habitat associations to 
guide our restoration efforts for these species. The restoration site is 
located in a matrix of both conifers and sagebrush. I have pasted below the 
list of plants observed on site; underlined species were within the 
delineated boundaries of the wetland.

I can be reached by phone at 916/448-2474 (home) or 916/414-5856 (work),
or by email at *kristenstrohm at gmail.com* <kristenstrohm at gmail.com>.

Thank you very much for your time and your expertise.

Regards,

Kristen Strohm

   *Plant list:*
* *
*Achillea millefolium*
*Agoseris glauca var. monticola*
*Arnica chamissonis*
*Artemisia tridentata*
*Aster ascendens*
*Astragalus purshii var tinctus*
*Carex athrostachya*
*Carex lenticularis*
*Carex nebraskensis*
*Carex utriculata*
*Chenopodium album*
*Cirsium scariosum*
*Cirsium vulgare* (noxious weed)
*Deschampsia caespitosa*
*Descurainia Sophia (*weed)* *
*Epilobium brachycarpum*
*Epilobium ciliatum var ciliatum*
*Gayophytum diffusum*
*Geum macrophyllum*
*Gnaphalium palustre*
*Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum*
*Juncus balticus*
*Lotus purshianus*
*Lupinus lepidus var. sellulus*
*Muhlenbergia richardsonis*
*Navarretia intertexta ssp. propinqua*
*Penstemon rydbergii**Phleum pratense*
*Pinus contorta var. murrayana*
*Plagiobothrys cognatus*
*Polemonium occidentale*
*Polygonum arenastrum*
*Polygonum douglasii ssp. spergulariforme*
*Potentilla gracilis var gracilis*
*Rorippa curvisiliqua*
*Rumex crispus*
*Salix geyeriana*
*Salix lemmoni*
*Sidalcea oregana ssp. spicata*
*Sisymbrium altissimum*
*Stachys ajugoides var. rigida* *Stellaria longipes*
*Taraxacum officinale*
*Trifolium cyathiferum*
*Veronica americana*
*Veronica peregrina ssp xalapensis*