USFS Sucess Story:
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
The United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula was featured during a Pollinator Live Web Seminar took on April 13, 2010.
This is part of the presentation about the Zaagkii Project as narrated by Jan Schultz, USFS Botany, Non-native Invasive Species Program Manager at the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region in Milwaukee.
Presenters:
Thelma Redick, Director of Conservation Education and Outreach with the Wildlife Habitat Council
Dr. John Pickering, an ecology professor at the University of Georgia
Nancy Lowe, outreach coordinator for Bee Hunt for Discover Life
Jan Schultz, Program Leader Botany & NNIS Eastern Region U.S. Forest Service.
The presentation focused how pollinators, particularly bees, can be used to teach standards based science and get students actively engaged with their work and the outdoors.
Jan Schultz, USFS
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species Program Manager
USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
626 Wisconsin Avenue, 7th Floor
Milwaukee, WI 53203
1-414-297-1189 (office)
1-414-944-3963 (fax)
jschultz@fs.fed.us
Link to view the web seminar in various formats:
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/PollinatorLive/webs...
See this Web Seminar's Archive
PowerPoint Presentation (19.7 MB)
Presentation - PDF version (5.66 MB)
Add this Web Seminar Archive to your NSTA Learning Center Library
Pollinator Live
http://pollinatorlive.pwnet.org/index.php
Pollinator Live on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/PWNetwork
Tamberly Conway, M.S.
tkconway@fs.fed.us
Tamberly Conway, M.S.
Conservation Education Coordinator
National Forests and Grasslands in Texas
415 S. First St., Suite 110
Lufkin, TX
75901-3801
1-936-639-8558 (office)
1-337-304-5872 (cell)
1-936-639-8588 (fax)
Phone: W.O.(PollinatorLIVE)
1-202-401-4063
Natures Partners: Pollinators, Plants, and You
http://www.nappc.org/curriculum
Bee Hunt!
http://www.discoverlife.org/bee
Pollinators Wanted Posters Courtesy The Xerces Society:
http://www.xerces.org/bumblebees
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wanted_affinis.pdf
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wanted_occidentalis.pdf
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wanted_terricola.pdf
To view cool macro (close up) shots of pollinators with the pollen beads like marbles are taken by John Kimbler, a friend of the Zaagkii Project:
http://dalantech.deviantart.com/gallery/#Bees-and-Wasps
http://www.johnkimbler.com
Gina Boltz is editor of Native Village, and a big Zaagkii Project (and pollinator) supporter and fighter for Native American youth is
http://www.nativevillage.org
NativeVillage500@aol.com
Zaagkii Project videos:
http://www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV
http://zaagkiitv.blip.tv
Zaagkii Project blogs:
http://zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
http://zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com
Stories and other info about Zaagkii Project:
http://www.nativeradio.com/news/community.cfm
http://www.zimbio.com/The+Zaagkii+Wings+and+Seeds+Project/articles/15/Zaagkii...
Links to some of the Zaagkii Project news stories:
Indian Country Today Part #1 Pollinating preservation
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28395844.html
Indian Country Today Part #2 Sand Point to get new look: Zaagkii Project to restore Native plants along Lake Superior
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/28284129.html
Native Village:
http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC%20Tribal%20Y...
Sault Ste. Marie band of Chippewa Indians newspaper pdf (Page 7 is Zaagkii story)
http://www.saulttribe.com/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&...
Tree Hugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/zaagkii--wings-seeds-project.php
Mining Journal (Marquette, MI daily newspaper):
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?nav=5001
Effort to protect pollinators launched
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Increasing numbers of Native Americans attend NMU
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/532551.html
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