Which Way Forward For Pollinator Protection?

Organizer(s)

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  Melanie Kirby (she/her/hers)

  Apiculture Extension Educator/Professional Bee Breeder/Consilience Researcher/Artist
  Land-Grant Program / Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance / Nectar Nomad
  Institute of American Indian Arts / Zia Queenbees
  Santa Fe, New Mexico
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  Andony Melathopoulos

  Pollinator Health Extension Specialist
  Department of Horticulture
  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, Oregon
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  Ana Heck (she/her/hers)

  Apiculture Extension Educator
  Extension
  Michigan State University
  Lansing, Michigan

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Melanie M. Kirby (she/her/hers) – Institute of American Indian Arts / Zia Queenbees
• 1:35 PM – 1:56 PM PT

  Challenges faced by managed and wild pollinators in British Columbia
  

  Presenting Author: Nuria Morfin – British Columbia Technology Transfer Program

  Co-Author: Leonard Foster – The University of British Columbia

  Co-author: Paul van Westendorp – British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture

  Co-author: Kerry Clark – British Columbia Tech Transfer Program

  Co-author: Julia Common – The University of British Columbia

  Co-author: Elizabeth Huxter – British Columbia Honey Producers Association

  Co-author: Axel Krause – British Columbia Tech Transfer Program
• 1:56 PM – 2:17 PM PT

  The Managed Pollinator Protection Plans Working Group & pollinator stewardship in Michigan
  

  Presenting Author: Ana Heck (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
• 2:17 PM – 2:38 PM PT

  What do you do when the problem feels overwhelming?
  

  Presenting Author: Katie Buckley – Washington State Department of Agriculture
• 2:38 PM – 2:48 PM PT

  Break
• 2:48 PM – 3:09 PM PT

  IPM4Bees: Midwest attitudes about honey bees and pollinator-friendly practices
  

  Presenting Author: Randall Paul Cass (he/him/his) – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Erin W. Hodgson – Iowa State University

  Co-author: Matthew E O’Neal – Iowa State University

  Co-author: Amy Toth – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Adam Dolezal – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 3:09 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Market implications of changes in climate, land coverage and annual colony mortality for U.S. commercial beekeeping operations.
  

  Presenting Author: Juliana Rangel – Texas A&M University

  Co-author: Richard Woodward – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

  Co-author: Chengcheng Fei – Texas A&M University
• 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM PT

  Break
• 3:40 PM – 4:01 PM PT

  State agency perspective: Regulatory and educational response to bee kills resulting from neonicotinoid treated linden trees
  

  Presenting Author: Rose Kachadoorian – Oregon Department of Agriculture
• 4:01 PM – 4:22 PM PT

  Protecting pollinators from pesticides in Minnesota - a state agency perspective
  

  Presenting Author: Theresa Cira (she/her/hers) – Minnesota Department of Agriculture

  Co-author: Rajinder Mann – Minnesota Department of Agriculture
• 4:22 PM – 4:43 PM PT

  All-hands-on-deck: Farmers as conservation partners in the biodiversity loss emergency
  

  Presenting Author: Lora Morandin – Pollinator Partnership

  Co-author: Kathleen Law – Pollinator Partnership Canada

  Co-author: Susan Willis chan – Trent University

  Co-author: Vicki Wojcik – Pollinator Partnership Canada
• 4:43 PM – 4:50 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Melanie M. Kirby (she/her/hers) – Institute of American Indian Arts / Zia Queenbees