[Pollinator] Fwd: Project Wingspan Special Feature

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*Dear Project Wingspan Volunteers and Conservation Partners:*

We hope you enjoyed our last newsletter featuring some of the exemplary
partnerships made in Ohio formed through Monarch Wings Across the Eastern
Broadleaf Forest
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In this edition of our newsletter series, we will be kicking off a new
segment recognizing Project Wingspan's All-Star Team Leads nominated by our
State Coordinators.
Through Project Wingspan
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we have had the opportunity to work with fantastic volunteers who make our
conservation efforts possible. Each seed-collection team has one or more
leads that coordinate the local grass-roots collection events across each
state, and we greatly appreciate the time, effort, and passion they share
with our project and their community. In this edition, Joe Hovis, Project
Wingspan's State Coordinator for Pennsylvania, will be featuring his
nominated All-Star Team Lead, Toni Zawisa!
Special Feature: Pennsylvania All-Star Team Lead
*Toni Zawisa, Former Regional Natural Resource Specialist for Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation.*
Toni spearheaded Project Wingspan across Pennsylvania with her network of
transportation environmental specialists and roadside managers. As a result
of her efforts, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is now an
official partner of Project Wingspan. Her enthusiasm and leadership has
also led to the identification of numerous seed collection sites in Central
Pennsylvania, as well as the organization and motivation of seed collection
volunteers across the state. Toni has been an extraordinary Team Lead and
we’d like to recognize the terrific effort she has put into leading the way
for Project Wingspan by naming her one of our All-Star Team Leads.
Her work to support pollinators and the habitat on which they rely doesn’t
stop with her involvement with Project Wingspan. Toni recently retired from
the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, where she was the Pollinator
Work Group Coordinator. She developed and facilitated the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation Voluntary Prelisting Pollinator Conservation
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with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. This program is
voluntary, non-regulatory, and proactive in the conservation of pollinator
species of special concern including the monarch, regal fritillary, frosted
elfin, and the yellow banded bumble bee.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation maintains approximately
21,911 rural roadway miles. It is estimated that a minimum of 29,000 acres
of Right-Of-Way passages are associated with these rural road miles that
can be managed as pollinator habitat using a combination of conservation
mowing practices and habitat restoration.
Toni’s leadership actions with Project Wingspan and pollinator conservation
along PA’s roadways
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are an inspiration for us all. The Wingspan team sends a huge thank you to
Toni and her seed collection teams!
*Interested in learning more about Project Wingspan and how you can get
involved in Pennsylvania? Send Joe an email, he'd love to connect!*


*Joe Hovis Project Wingspan State Coordinator, Pennsylvania*
*jh at pollinator.org* <jh at pollinator.org>

Thank You Project Wingspan Volunteers!
One of the aspects of this project that excites Pollinator Partnership the
most is the ability it has to bring people of good will together for a
common goal, which benefits all who participate. Thanks to amazing
partnerships and local project leadership, this initiative has been able to
tap into many local conservation efforts throughout our target states and
bring added value to the great work that they’re already doing. By
providing a plug-and-play effort complete with training resources and a
protocol, Project Wingspan has been able to help universities, land
trusts/conservancies, parks, federal/state lands, and others to further
develop skills in seed collection as well as a trained community of
volunteers who are eager to contribute this knowledge to their local
conservation community long beyond the conclusion of this short-term
project. Many collection locations have also qualified to receive
regionally appropriate native seed or plugs from the project by completing
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and will also benefit directly by receiving plant materials to further
enhance their lands for imperiled pollinators and other wildlife!
A mighty thanks goes out to our many volunteer seed collectors, Team Leads,
and participating land stewards and collection locations throughout
Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin! Only through wonderful examples of on-the-ground partnership and
collaboration such as the one we’ve highlighted today is it possible for us
to achieve landscape level change for these pollinators which are
desperately in need of our support in improving habitat to provide for
their migratory, nesting, foraging, reproductive, and shelter needs.

Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing more stories, updates,
partnerships, and successes from across our project’s geography. So stay
tuned!


*Warmest Regards, Pollinator Partnership and the Project Wingspan Team*
Join Project Wingspan!
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To see our list of target plants and sign-up as a potential seed collection
location please fill out the online form here:
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We’re continuing to build additional volunteer seed collection teams. If
you’re interested in joining or forming a team, please let us know by
contacting the State Coordinator for your state!


*State Coordinators:*

*Arkansas: *Sara Wittenberg <sw at pollinator.org>
*Illinois:* Holly Frainer <hf at pollinator.org>
*Indiana:* Emily Yates <ey at pollinator.org>
*Michigan:* Connie Crancer <cc at pollinator.org>
*Minnesota:* Kyla Tripp <kt at pollinator.org>
*Ohio: *Lara Roketenetz <lara at pollinator.org>
*Pennsylvania:* Joe Hovis <jh at pollinator.org>
*Wisconsin: *Laura Jach Smith <ljs at pollinator.org>

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