[Pollinator] Fwd: Powwow info posted in email

[Carrie McLaughlin]

DEADLINE TO PRE-REGISTER FOR THE TEXAS POLLINATOR POWWOW IS APRIL 12TH



Good evening!

Our Texas Pollinator PowWow pollinator conservation conference is coming to
the Panhandle on April 22-24 at the Museum of Texas Tech and at Tahoka
Lake.  We'd love to see you there. We're always looking for like-minded
folks who share our conservation concerns and are eager to learn and make
new acquaintanceships.  Please take a look at some of our speakers listed
below. We think you'll agree with us that they are exceptional. There's a
couple more speakers we couldn't squeeze on this page, not counting our
outstanding Tahoka prairie/playa lake field trip leaders. And a few more
participating institutions, too. Click on the link to our website to learn
more.

Would you be so kind as to forward this email to others you believe may be
interested?  This western Texas conference is designed to appeal to natural
resource managers, researchers, naturalists, nearly all of the -ologists,
government and academic and NGO personnel, farmers and ranchers and
vintners and orchardists, master gardeners and agronomists, beekeepers and
plantsmen, and even those who would just call themselves "pollinator
enthusiasts". We have a lot of good information to share. Did you know, for
example, that a recent study in the Panhandle shows a 17% increase in
cotton yield when the field is bordered by wild bees? Yes. Seventeen
percent. We don't know about you, but we'd love to have a 17% pay raise!
Did you know that you can cost-share your land for conservation practices,
and then turn around and earn money as income by providing for monarch
butterflies when you do that? Just like a deer lease! Did you know that
another recent study shows that you can take the edges of your crop land
out of production, plant it for pollinators, and still have an increase in
crop yield- even with LESS crop land?! Did you know that bats, our friends
against crop pests and harmful insects, used to be twelve species in number
in the Panhandle- and that we can restore them as our helpers by making a
few adjustments? Did you know that every one of the pollinator conservation
measures we are promoting will save water, clean water, and store water in
the aquifer AND on your own yard or land?

Like we said, we have a lot to share. Our steering committee is cc'ed
above. Please contact any one of us if you have questions. And let your
friends and neighbors know. Our pre-registration deadline is April 12th.
Come one, both or three days. We thank you.

See ya'll soon!

Carrie McLaughlin

TEXAS POLLINATOR POWWOW,  Coordinator

http://www.texaspollinatorpowwow.org/

https://www.facebook.com/texaspollinatorpowwow

carrie.mclaughlin58 at gmail.com

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