[Pollinator] POLLINATOR ACTION REQUEST!!! Co-Sign this POLLINATOR CONSERVATION SUPPORT STATEMENT for Senate FB Hearing Record. RSVP BY MAY 10

[R. Thomas Van Arsdall]

ACTION REQUEST!!!  Support the Farm Bill Pollinator Cause by Co-Signing this
POLLINATOR CONSERVATION SUPPORT STATEMENT—even if you are filing your own
comments  
	* RSVP BY MAY 10
	* To Be Submitted c.o.b. May 10 for May 1 Senate Ag Hearing Record

			***STATEMENT, Incl Signatories to Date***

The undersigned organizations urge the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and
Forestry Committee to add targeted authorizing language and supporting
report language that enhances existing Farm Bill conservation, forest
management, research and other programs to better address managed and native
pollinator needs.  Pollinators, agriculture and healthy ecosystems deserve
no less.

Candidate programs in the Conservation Title include the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP),
the Conservation Security Program (CSP), the Wildlife Habitat Incentives
Program (WHIP), the Farm and Ranchlands Protection Program, the Grasslands
Reserve Program (GRP), the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) and the Watershed
Rehabilitation Program.  Similar opportunities exist in other Farm Bill
programs, such as research and extension and forestry.

Please include this as part of the record of the May 1 Committee hearing on
conservation policy recommendations for the Farm Bill.

Respectfully Submitted,

	Coevolution Institute
	Rhonda Kranz, Kranz Consulting
	National Wildlife Federation
	Sunfield Seeds, Inc.
	The National Sunflower Association

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May 1 CoE Senate Ag statement, executive summary and media advisory can be
accessed at http://pollinator.org/farm_bill.htm. 

Bee Ready for National Pollinator Week, June 24-30, 2007! For more info: 
www.pollinator.org  
 
R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Public Affairs Representative for Coevolution
Institute/NAPPC
      tom at vanarsdall.com