[Pollinator] Update, POLLINATOR ACTION REQUEST!!! Individual Category Added to Senate Ag Pollinator Group Statement. RSVP to Sign on by 4 PM May 10

[R. Thomas Van Arsdall]

Group Pollinator Statement to be submitted for Senate Ag Committee
Conservation Hearing Record provided below.  When asked, we expanded beyond
organizations to include individuals [in particular researchers,
scientists].  So if you would like to sign on as organization or individual,
please rsvp by 4 PM Eastern, Thursday, May 10.  Thanks!  

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Submitted to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee

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,

Organizations:
	Coevolution Institute
	National Wildlife Federation
	Sunfield Seeds, Inc.
	Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
	The National Sunflower Association
	Wildlife Habitat Council

Individuals:
	Dr. Stephen Buchmann, Department of Entomology, University of
Arizona
	Dr. David W. Inouye, University of Maryland
	Rhonda Kranz, Kranz Consulting



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R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Public Affairs Representative for Coevolution
Institute/NAPPC
   Van Arsdall & Associates
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