Online: Best Practices for Pollinators Summit

Schedule for Feb. 27 – Feb. 29 (in process, and not in order of presentation time)

• Urban soil life: Invertebrate animals and their roles in soil health, Jennifer Hopwood & Stephanie Frischie, Xerces Society
• Huffman prairie: the long view, plant and animal abundance, David Nolan, Ecologist
• Fungi insects, Sarah Foltz Jordan, Biologist
• Native bee specialists, plant hosts, threats and conservation, Heather Holm, Biologist and author
• Indigenous practices on the land, Ferin Davis Anderson, Lead Environmental Scientist, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
• Restoring relationships and beneficial fire to Great Lakes forests, Evan Larson Ph.D, University of Platteville
• Catastrophic Regime Shifts in Midwest Savanna Ecosystems: Restoration and Why it Matters, Stephen Thomforde, Senior Ecologist, Stantec
• Monarch Habitat Management and Research Needed to Improve It, Dr. Ray Moranz, Xerces
• Living with wild things, Hope Flanigan, Dream of Wild Health
• Understanding wildflower forage value: Advocating for plant diversity to ranchers, Rae Powers & Sarah Hamilton-Buxton, Xerces
• Supporting beneficial birds with native habitat, Shelly O’Connor, Wild Farm Alliance
• Leveraging our power as plant buyers to get pollinator-safe plants, Sharon Selvaggio, Xerces Society
• Importance of forests and woody habitat for pollinators, Kass-Urban Mead, Xerces
• BMPs to convert old fields to pollinator habitat, Karin Jokela, Xerces Society and Gina Hugo, Sherburne County Public Works/Parks Director
• Mosquito IPM in practice, Rella Abernathy, City of Boulder
• and more to come

Recorded presentations from past summits are posted on two websites:

• Pollinator Friendly Alliance: Webinars and Videos
• YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHXSsYI7l-X3Dcb6a5ABJqMifefg5irc