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Bee City USA NEWS May 2024

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Free Promo Kits: No Mow May & Pollinator Week

As a benefit to our Bee City and Bee Campus affiliates, we provide "promo kits" to help with outreach. These digital kits includes items like printable handouts, ideas for events and activities, social media content, template op-eds, links for further reading, and more.

We hope these kits allow you to quickly disseminate information in a way that is easy to read and share:

Access the 2024 No Mow May Promo Kit (bottom of the page)

Access the 2024 Pollinator Week Promo Kit: Meet the Bees

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Affiliate Spotlight: Growing a Pollinator Conservation Community in Westminster, CO

Check out our latest Affiliate Spotlight with Susana Prieto Bravo, Bilingual Naturalist, as she shares how the many ways Bee City USA - Westminster, CO has embraced pollinator conservation, from their Pollinator Festival to growing 45,000 plants for the city each year! Read more

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Virtual Affiliate Meetup: South Central US

MAY 22 @ 6 PM - 7 PM CT

FREE

Guest Speaker: Ray Moranz

Join Ray Moranz, Xerces Society’s Pollinator Conservation Specialist, for a short presentation on Monarchs and the Effort to Find Monarch Nectar Plants in the South Central U.S., followed by an extended Q&A and group discussion. This is an opportunity to share your successes, ask for advice, and connect with your fellow affiliate cities and campuses.

Feel free to join us if you are a Bee City or Bee Campus affiliate in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, or Texas.

This free Bee City USA webinar is hosted by Xerces Society and will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel on the Bee City USA playlist. Auto-generated Closed Captioning will be available.

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Watch Our Past Regional Meetings

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Bee City & Bee Campus Affiliate Survey - Help Us Plan for 2025!

Our national Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA team is doing some strategic planning in June and we'd love to hear from you if you work or volunteer for your local Bee City USA or Bee Campus USA.

Your thoughts and suggestions are valuable, so please take a few minutes to fill out this survey. Are there topics you'd like to learn more about? Questions you need answered?

We look forward to using your insight and inspiration to shape how we can best support your work. Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback!

Take our 5-minute (10 if you're thorough!) Bee City USA & Bee Campus USA Affiliate Survey

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Local Policy Survey: Your Expertise is Needed

The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law & Graduate School (CAFS) is interested in speaking with Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA affiliates about their experiences navigating local policies (zoning codes, nuisance ordinances, etc.) that impact their ability to create pollinator habitat.

They are particularly interested in speaking with affiliates who have had success in changing their local policies or who face difficulty navigating their local policies.

This research will lead to the creation and distribution of public resources that will help urban food producers and policymakers navigate the laws and regulations that support or undermine urban agriculture and innovative production in cities and towns across the country.

Take the Vermont Law & Graduate School policy survey

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Tiny Places For Tiny Animals: Building The Microhabitats That Bugs Need To Thrive

Any of us with even a tiny postage stamp of a yard — or just a deck or balcony — can create a vital part of the habitat bugs need to flourish. And if each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot. Read More

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Welcome, New Bee City and Bee Campus Affiliates

Please welcome to our newest affiliates. Thank you for joining us!

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, CA
Pelham, AL
Richmond, VA
Western Carolina University, NC
Winchester, VA

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Take Action: Protect Our Grasslands

A coalition of conservation organizations is celebrating the launch of mapforgrasslands.org an illustration of the need for the North American Grasslands Conservation Act.

This first-of-its-kind website documents the loss of grasslands in North America, the subsequent impact on iconic wildlife species, and the need for grasslands-specific legislation – the North American Grasslands Conservation Act (Grasslands Act) – to address upland habitat loss.

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