Pollinator Habitat
Plant Materials Centers are working to select plants and provide recommendations on plants which will enhance pollinator populations throughout the growing season. These wildflowers, trees, shrubs, and grasses are an integral part of the conservation practices that landowners, farmers, and ranchers install as part of their conservation plan.
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In the News
Ask the Expert: Selecting Pollinator Mixes; A Q&A with Amy Bartow - Laura Crowell, USDA, Farmers.gov, 06/22/2021 During national pollinator week, Amy Bartow, manager at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Materials Center in Corvallis, Oregon, answers a few questions about pollinator plants and selecting the right seeding mix in the Ask the Expert.
Where have all the bees gone? - Jan Sluizer, VOA Voice of America, 04/19/15
VOA recently went to the town of Lockeford, in the Central Valley of California. Researchers there are mixing plants to try to bring back the bees. Margaret Smither-Kopperl is a botanist, a scientist who studies plants. She leads the Lockeford Plant Materials Center.
Bee Buffer Project - Farmers Sought to Provide Bee Habitat - Record, 12/04/14
Margaret Smither-Kopperl, manager of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Lockeford Plant Materials Center, said providing bee habitat has a number of benefits. While her agency is not involved in the Bee Buffer Project, it has studied and supports the creation of hedgerows, designed for use between and within farm fields, that support bees and other beneficial insects and wildlife.
