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Protecting Pollinators in Minnesota: How Are We Doing?

November 20, 2019

Photo by Christopher E. Smith

The Issue

Why are we concerned about pollinators?

Photo by Brett Whaley

Background

• Executive Order 16-07

Directing Steps to Reverse Pollinator Decline

• Executive Order 19-28

Restoring Healthy Pollinator Populations

Interagency Pollinator Protection Team Administration Agriculture BWSR Corrections Education Health Natural Resources MPCA Minnesota Zoo Transportation

Photo by Meghan Manhatton Photo by Brett Whaley

Framework for Interagency Collaboration

Goal Key Output Habitat More flowers Pesticides More IPM Engagement More community commitments Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

2019 Pollinator Report

• Assess progress toward goals
• Best available information
• Metrics tell a story
• Offer recommendations

New in 2019!

Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

Pollinator decline continues to be a concern.

• Imperiled
• Common
• Managed

Photo by Kent Miller

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Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

www.edf.org Photo by Adam Jones (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Imperiled Pollinator: Monarch Butterfly

United States Fish & Wildlife Service

Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

Recommendations

• Support recovery plans
• Invest in long-term monitoring
• Promote continuing education on

best practices for managed pollinators

Photo by Meghan Manhatton

Goal 1: Lands Support Pollinators

Minnesotans are investing in conservation and finding new places for habitat. However, pollinator habitat is declining overall.

Photo by Ann Wessel, Board of Soil and Water Resources

• Restoration carries

great potential for increasing floral resources

• Management of land

matters, too

• “All hands on deck”

approach

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Goal 1: Lands Support Pollinators

Photo by Minnesota Department of Transportation

State-managed rights-of-way Urban & developed lands

Goal 1: Lands Support Pollinators

Recommendations

• Increase restoration on public and private lands
• Increase investment in pollinator habitat and

management in state-managed ROW

• Support pollinator-friendly federal legislation
• Support pollinator habitat mapping

Photo by Brett Whaley

Goal 2: Use Pesticides Judiciously and Only When Necessary

Improving and promoting IPM can increase IPM adoption and reduce adverse impacts to pollinators. IPM = Integrated Pest Management Metrics:

• IPM development
• IPM promotion
• IPM adoption

Photo by University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center

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Goal 2: Use Pesticides Judiciously and Only When Necessary

New guidance on neonicotinoid insecticides

• Residential
• Agricultural

Recommendations

• Increase funding for IPM

development, promotion, and implementation

• Collect data on IPM adoption

Photo by Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Goal 2: Use Pesticides Judiciously and Only When Necessary

Goal 3: Understand, Value, and Actively Support Pollinators

Interest in pollinators remains high. However, there is room to grow – to increase knowledge, to reach new people and communities, and to improve conditions for pollinators statewide.

Increasing community commitments:

• Pollinator

resolutions

• Community

science

• Pollinator pledges

Photo by Judy Griesedieck

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Goal 3: Understand, Value, and Actively Support Pollinators

Photo by Meghan Manhatton

Community Science: Bumble Bee Surveys

Photo by Blue Thumb

Recommendations

• Cultivate relationships to support pledge and

resolution adoption

• Integrate community science into survey

efforts; increase participation

• Support pollinator education initiatives

Goal 3: Understand, Value, and Actively Support Pollinators

Further Information

Resources:

• Information Sources for the 2019

Minnesota State Agency Pollinator Report

• Summary of State Agency Pollinator

Efforts 2019

• Pollinator Legislation Memo 2019

Documents will be posted online at www.eqb.state.mn.us/pollinators by December 1.

Photo by Judy Griesedieck

Resolution

• Approve the 2019 Minnesota State Agency

Pollinator Report, to be released by December 1, 2019.

• Support cross-agency collaboration to

implement the recommendations in the 2019 Minnesota State Agency Pollinator Report.

• Convene future meetings to monitor

progress and invite public input.

Photo by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Thank you!

Faith Krogstad faith.krogstad@state.mn.us 651-757-2086

Photo by Urban Roots

Discussion Questions

• How well does the report capture the complexity and offer

a practical strategy for addressing the health of pollinators?

• Considering the information in the report, how can we

move the issue forward?

• What does success look like and how should we measure,

and/or monitor it?

Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

Imperiled Pollinator: Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

Photo by Peter Leete United States Fish & Wildlife Service

Outcome: Healthy, Diverse Pollinators

Managed Pollinator: Honey Bee

• Measures of health
• Colony Loss
• Honey production
• Multiple, interacting challenges
• Including the 4 Ps and climate change