Pollinators

Through hands-on events, monitoring, backyard plantings and online advocacy, FMR volunteers, advocates and staff help to protect, plant and restore critical pollinator habitat throughout the Twin Cities metro Mississippi River corridor. 

Pollinators
Volunteers plant pollinator patches aplenty

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What can a small planting of milkweed and other natives really do for pollinators? More than you might think. 

Hastings Environmental Protectors and FMR teamed up to create three new pollinator patches, helping to provide much-needed habitat for a variety of insect and pollinating species in the Vermillion and Mississippi river watersheds.

 

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An FMR Vermillion Stewards volunteer plants a pollinator patch.
FMR restoration efforts emphasize pollinator health

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Pollinators have had a rough go of things lately, with habitat loss and overabundant pesticide use leading to declines in many bee and butterfly species. However, it’s not all doom and gloom. These declines have sparked a renewed interest in pollinators, leading to new initiatives and funding for the conservation of these species. Find out what FMR and others are doing to protect pollinators in Minnesota.

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