Marquette, MI - The summer of 2010 promises to be the biggest year yet for the northern Michigan Zaagkii Project as teens continue projects to protect pollinators and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community builds the first native plants greenhouse on an American Indian Reservation.
Indigenous plants create a healthy habitat for bees, butterflies and other pollinators ensuring the future of plants, vegetables and fruit.
Zaagkii Project sponsors: Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI), Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS).
KBIC President Chris Swartz Jr. said the tribe plans to build a native plants greenhouse in 2010.
KBIC "is happy to be partnering with the Cedar Tree Institute and the U.S. Forest Service to protect native plants," said Swartz, during the CTI Midsummer festival in July 2009.
KBIC hopes to be regarded as pioneers to bring these native plants back here," he said.
The 36 mason bee houses are in yards across Marquette County. The mason bee houses and last summer's butterfly houses are up around the KBIC and one of each were placed by the USFS in the "The People's Garden" at U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters National Mall, Washington D.C.
Native plants and the native insects that pollinate them cannot survive without each other, said Jan Schultz, USFS botany and non-native species program leader in Milwaukee, WI.
Zaagkii Project contributors: Marquette Community Foundation, Marquette County Juvenile Court, the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation and the Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation.
Jan Schultz, USFS
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species
Special Forest Products Program Leader
USDA USFS Eastern Region Milwaukee
1-414-297-1189
jschultz@fs.fed.us
USFS links:
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/wildlife/plants_botany
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Project Founder
Ex. Dir., Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Marquette, MI
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org
906-228-5494
906-360-5072
magnusonx2@charter.net
KBIC
http://www.kbic-nsn.gov
Pres. Warren C. "Chris" Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623
Vice Chair Susan LaFernier
906-353-6623
Todd Warner, Director Natural Resource Department
906-524-5757
NMU Center for Native American Studies
April Lindala, Director
906-227-1397
alindala@nmu.edu
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/index.shtml
Zaagkii links
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZaagkiiTV
http://zaagkiitv.blip.tv
http://zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
Marquette County Juvenile Court
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/courts/juvenile_court/index.htm
http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/?q=locations_marquette
Borealis Seed Company Big Bay, MI
Mother-daughter Judy Keast, Suzanne Rabitaille
http://www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/index.html
U.P. Children's Museum
http://www.upcmkids.org
Nativevillage.org Zaagkii Pages:
http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC%20Tribal%20Y...
http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC%20Tribal%20Y...
http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC%20Tribal%20Y...
Music courtesy Chicago area band Dragon Fire Parade (U.P. roots)
Andy Wicklund, Guitar; Tim Obert, Guitar; Peter Nemanich, Bass; Chris Hammond, Drums
pnemanic@gmail.com
Sept. 2009 Marquette Monthly Zaagkii story
http://mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
Mining Journal Stories 12-13-08, 7-14-08
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?nav=5001
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Indian Country Today: Pollinator Preservation, Sand Point restoration
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28395844.html
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/28284129.html
Monarch butterflies migrate Santa Cruz
Photo by Mila Zinkova
l.zinkova@yahoo.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monarch_butterflies_in_Santa_Cruz-11.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~milazinkova/Fogshadow.html
Artwork Migrating butterflies by Pilar Murillo of Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Butterflymigration.jpg
Wikipedia username: Pilar, flickr username: izarbeltza
http://www.flickr.com/people/izarbeltza
murillo.p@gmail.com
Goldenrod Pixs via Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod
Pix by Kurt Stueber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solidago_virgaurea_minuta0.jpg
Pix by Huw Williams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goldenrods_in_Fountain_County,_Indiana.png
Pix by Georg Slickers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solidago_canadensis_20050815_248.jpg
Monarch Watch
http://monarchwatch.org
Monarch Author Lynn M. Rosenblatt
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Magic.htm
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Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinatorsby ZaagkiiTV2,341 views
excellent work~peace and love
iamearthbornami 2 years ago
Pretty cool, Can't wait to see what its going to look like
Dealz1988 2 years ago