Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators

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Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth protecting pollinators

31 12 2008

(Marquette, Michigan) – Northern Michigan teens are on a mission to protect pollinators by helping butterflies and restoring native plants to areas of the Upper Peninsula.

Perhaps the best know pollinators are bees – like honey bees and bumble bees.

Billions of these bees are dying across the world in a syndrome called Colony Collapse Disorder.

Zaagkii Project artwork created by a teen volunteer

Bees are disappearing and its not clear why – although human impact on the environment are among the suspected causes like pesticides and global warming.

A world without bees would mean world without food. – as was dramatically pointed out in the Jerry Seinfield 2007 comedy – Bee movie.

Bees go on strike causing plants across the world die – that means no food, no flowers, no trees – the death of civilization.

After bees, the next best pollinators are butterflies.

Marquetee teens build a butterfly house in July 2008 in the parking lot of the Grace United Methodist Church.

The butterfly houses are longer than the better known birdhouses and are lined with bark.

Marquette, Michigan area teens and Native American youth spent the summer of 2008 building butterfly houses – that are longer and slimmer than birdhouses and are lined with bark.

Teens participating in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Summer Youth Program built and painted the houses at the tribes Natural Resource Department along Lake Superior.

KBIC Natural Resource Department Director Todd Warner said the Zaagkii Project is a good way for youth to become aware of their connection to natural resources and nature.

The butterfly houses offer protection to butterflies that can enter thru tiny slits.

Butterfly houses, pictured above on poles, also offer rest to migrating monarchs and can be used for reproduction.

Marquete teens and two Zaagkii Propject volunteers are pictured in July 2008 planting native plant seeds at the Hiawatha National Forest Green House in Marquette, MI

Marquette teens have planted or distributed 26,000 native plant including at the Hiawatha National Forest greenhouse in Marquette.

In the spring of 2009 some of the plants will be planted at several areas across northern Michigan including at Sand Point – a beach that the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community has been repairing from the effects of copper mining.

The mine dumped copper processing waste into Lake Superior in the late 1800s and early 1900s – polluting miles of shoreline.

KBIC Photo of Sand Point

The tribe capped the pollution and the native plants will be used to attract wildlife and restore the ecosystem.

The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project will enter its second year in the summer of 2009.

This is the first of several videos on the many aspect of the Zaagkii Project that was founded by the non- profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette that has sponsored numerous environment projects.

The three-year Zaagkii Project is sponsored by the CTI, Marquette County Juvenile Court, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS).

Future videos will include a look at a bee farm in Marquette County that fascinated Zaagkii Project teens who received a close look at the hives and learned about the importance of pollinators.

Pictured above, the Cedar Tree Institute held a BBQ in July 2008 to honor the Zaagkii Project teens at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, MI.

The teens visited a KBIC pow-wow where they were recognized. And amongst numerous news stories done on project Jan Schultz of the USFS was interviewed by a California radio station about Zaagkii Project.

All this in future videos.

The Zaagkii Project is made possible by contributors like the Marquette Community Foundation, the Negaunee Community Fund, the Negaunee Community Youth Fund, the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation, the Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation, with assistance from the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum in Marquette, Mich. and the Borealis Seed Company in Big Bay, Mich.

Im Greg Peterson and you are watching Zaagkii TV

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Environment prayer thanks to EarthWords Dec. 14, 2008 issue – produced by Rev. Charlie West of the Grace UMC Church in Marquette – a leader in the Earth Keeper Initiative.

Eternal God, your amazing power to innovate goes on forever, but in our time we are seeing your glorious Creation slipping away.

Continue to touch our hearts with a concern for Creation; continue to give us wisdom and insight into Creation’s healthy parameters; continue to draw us together on Creation’s behalf and well-being.

Then as the earth brings forth its shoots may our lives bring forth your love and justice and grace.
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EarthWords Suggests – Give a native species plant:

Consider a (local) live plant gift, or perhaps even a contribution to purchase and preserve rain forest or some other wilderness place!

EarthWords is produced by Charlie West Ink

EarthWords website

email EarthWords

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Austin, Texas Honeybee video courtesy: Johnnie Hargrave

Photos by Richard Burkmar; Paul Billiet & Shirley Burchill

Wikipedia photos by (Usernames when real name not available): Tübingen-Hagelloch, Björn Appel, Warden, Debi Vort, Kristof Van der Poorten, John Severns, Waugsberg, Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, Derek Ramsey, John O’Neill

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KBIC Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project contact info and web links
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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Contacts:

KBIC Tribal Chair Warren C. Chris Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623 ext. 4104
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KBIC Vice Chair Susan LaFernier
906-353-6623
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KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)

Todd Warner, NRD Director
KBIC Natural Resource Director
Ph: (906) 524-5757 ext. 13
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Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD Natural Resources Specialist
906-524-5757 ext. 11
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KBIC NRD Staffers interviewed:
Katie Kruse, NRD Environment specialist
Char Beesley. Environment Specialist
Kit Laux, NRD Water Quality Specialist
(906) 524-5757
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Other KBIC Contacts:

Kim Klopstein, one of the summer youth supervisors for the KBIC Summer Youth Program
906-201-0020
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United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees United States Forest Service (USFS)
USDA USFS
Forest Service Eastern Region
626 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Suite 700
Milwaukee, Wis.
53202
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USFS Official Jan Schultz speaks to Zaagkii Project supporters and volunteers in July 2008 at a Cedar Tree institute BBQ at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, MI

Jan Schultz, Botany & Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader
USFS Milwaukee
(414) 297-1189 (wk)
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Jane Cliff, USFS Public Relations in Milwaukee
(414) 297-3664
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Angie Lucas, contractor, Hiawatha National Forest Greenhouse Manager
(906) 228-8491
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Terry Miller, forest botanist
Hiawatha National Forest Office
Escanaba, Mich.
906-789-3319
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Deb LeBlanc, WestSide Plant Ecologist
Hiawatha National Forest
Munising, Mich. Office
Does Monach Workshops
906-387-2512 ext. 19
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Beekeeper Jim Hayward
Negaunee, Michigan
(906) 475-7582
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Carole Touchinski, Marquette & Negaunee community foundations
906-226-7666
http://www.mqt-cf.org
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Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds founder & Executive Director of non-profit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
(906) 228-5494 (hm)
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Links:
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United States Forest Service (USFS) celebrating wildflowers website:
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/index.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml
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Cedar Tree Institute – non-profit in Marquette, Michigan:
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org
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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community:
http://www.kbic-nsn.gov
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Marquette County Juvenile Court:
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/probate.htm
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/courts.htm
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Marquette County Juvenile Court & Project WEAVE:
http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/?q=locations_marquette
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Borealis Seed Company
Big Bay, Michigan
Run by mother-daughter team of Judy Keast and Suzanne Rabitaille cultivating about 5 acres of a 20-acre spread three miles south of Big Bay, Michigan.
http://www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/index.html
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Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum
http://www.upcmkids.org/
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Bee Movie:
http://www.beemovie.com
Created in 2007 by Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks Animation
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Monarch Watch::
http://monarchwatch.org/

Monarch Author Lynn M. Rosenblatt
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Magic.htm

Numerous Monarch related links:
http://www.kidsgardening.com/pollinator/curriculum/resources.php
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/butterflies/monarch/index.html
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/monarch.htm
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch
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Wikipedia on Monarchs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Butterfly
Female Monarch photo:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Monarch_In_May.jpg
Wiki May 2007 Photograph of a Monarch Butterfly by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson

Male Monarch Photo by Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) at the Tyler Arboretum
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Monarch_Butterfly_Danaus_plexippus_Male_2664px.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man
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Bees disappearing around the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees_and_toxic_chemicals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidacloprid_effects_on_bee_population
http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?contentPageId=531&catalogId=10051&storeId=10001&langId=-1
http://www.polinator.org/
http://www.vanishingbees.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_the_honey_bee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_arthropod

Wikipedia Honeybee Photos by Björn Appel, Wikipedia Username Warden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Warden
Edit by Waugsberg (cropped)
A honeybee on an apiary, cooling by flapping its wings in Tübingen-Hagelloch.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Honeybee-cooling_cropped.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Honeybee-cooling.jpg

Wiki Bee photos by Waugsberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Waugsberg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Biene_88a.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Biene_88a.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Bienen_im_Flug_52e.jpg
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Bumblebees: Space For Nature Garden biodiversity forum

http://www.wildlife-gardening.org.uk/default.asp?gallery=Galleries\Animals\Insects\Bumblebees\bombus-pascuorum-040616.xml

Bumblebee Photo Copyright Richard Burkmar 2004. Permission is hereby granted for anyone to use this image for non-commercial purposes which are of benefit to the natural environment.
Richard Burkmar (editor of Space for Nature) graduated from the University College of Cardiff in 1984 with a degree in zoology and a PhD in avian ecology in 1989. He currently works for Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service where he manages the North Merseyside Biodiversity Action Plan (Liverpool, St. Helens, Knowsley and Sefton Boroughs).

richard.burkmar@eas.sefton.gov.uk
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Bumblebees: Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centre
http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/bumblebees.html
Bumblebee photo by Oxford Bee Company/Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centre

Bumblebees by Christopher O’Toole
http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/Index_Pollination_Bees_27.html#33171

Chris O’Toole is the director of Bee Systematics and Biology Unit at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
He has written many books on insect natural history including Bees of the World and Alien Empire.
Pictures and information provided by the Oxford Bee Company & Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centre website
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Wind Pollinated plants like Rye are important but are not food sources for pollinators:
Wind Pollinated Rye photo by Paul Billiet and Shirley Burchill
http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0044.html
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Wikipedia on Pollination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination

An Andrena bee collects pollen among the stamens of a rose. The female carpel structure appears rough and globular to the left. The bee’s stash of pollen is on its hind leg.
By Debi Vort (Username Debivort)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bee_pollenating_a_rose.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debivort
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A European honey bee collects nectar, while pollen collects on its body.
A European honey bee (Apis mellifera) extracts nectar from an Aster flower using its proboscis. Tiny hairs covering the bee’s body maintain a slight electrostatic charge, causing pollen from the flower’s anthers to stick to the bee, allowing for pollination when the bee moves on to another flower.
Photo by John Severns (Wikipedia username Severnjc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:European_honey_bee_extracts_nectar.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Severnjc
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Blueberries being pollinated by bumblebees. Bumblebee hives need to be bought each year as the queens must hibernate (unlike honey bees). They are used nonetheless as they offer advantages with certain fruits as blueberries (such as the fact that they are active even at colder outdoor ambient temperature) A picture showing blueberry pollination by bumblebees, aswell as the system of furrow irrigation using siphon tubes. Pictures were taken at “blueberry fields”, Koersel, BelgiumA picture showing blueberry pollination by bumblebees, aswell as the system of furrow irrigation using siphon tubes. Pictures were taken in July 2008 at “blueberry fields”, Koersel, Belgium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlueberryPollinationByBumblebees.jpg
Photo by Kristof Van der Poorten Wikipedia username KVDP
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KVDP
http://kvdp.blogspot.com
http://healingweb.blogspot.com

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60 Haven Ave.
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http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/ehs/index.html
E-mail:
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Wikipedia on Cultivars & Hybrids:
A cultivar is a particular variety of a plant species or hybrid that is being cultivated and/or is recognised as a cultivar under the ICNCP. The concept of cultivar is driven by pragmatism, and serves the practical needs of horticulture, agriculture, forestry, etc.
The plant chosen as a cultivar may have been bred deliberately, selected from plants in cultivation, or discovered in the wild. Cultivars can be asexual clones or seed-raised. Clones are genetically identical and will appear so when grown under the same conditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar

Viola ‘Clear Crystals Apricot’, a hybrid cross viola (Viola x hybrida), Victoria, Australia. Wikipedia photo by John O’Neill (Wikipedia username Jjron)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jjron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Jjron
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Keweenaw Peninsula: Michigan’s Copper Country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan
http://www.unr.edu/sb204/geology/westernh.html
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West Virginia White Butterfly & killer Garlic Mustard Seed plants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_White
http://www.cbgarden.org/blog/index.php/tag/west-virginia-white-butterfly/
http://leapbio.org/west_virginia_white.php
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/3402_white_WV_ws.jpg

West Virginia White, Pieris virginiensis on wild mustard Photo by Randy L Emmitt
http://www.rlephoto.com/butterflies/white_wv01.htm
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Butterflies/Moths:
The Butterfly Site:
http://www.thebutterflysite.com/
Children’s butterfly links:
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Links.htm
Butterfly Encounters:
http://www.butterflyencounters.com/
Butterflys and Moths of North America:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators. 2006. Butterflies and Moths of North America. Bozeman, MT: NBII Mountain Prairie Information Node. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
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Deciduous forests:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous
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Viceroys:
Viceroy Butterfly mimics Monarchs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_butterfly
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Viceroy_Butterfly.jpg
Wikipedia Viceroy photo by Piccolo Pic Namek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PiccoloNamek

Viceroy:
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/viceroy.htm
Photo by William T. Hark
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Butterfly & endangered species hibernacula:
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/lists/michigan-cty.html
http://www.naturenorth.com/summer/bgarden/bttgrdF.html
http://entweb.clemson.edu/museum/buttrfly/local/bfly12.htm
http://actazool.nhmus.hu/48/konvicka.pdf
http://earthcaretaker.com/naturalization/llamb.html
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Mourning Cloaks aka Morning Cloaks:
http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/MourningCloak_060319.htm
http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/insects/mourning-cloak.aspx
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/mourningcloak.html
http://www.naturenorth.com/spring/bug/mcloak/Fmcloak.html
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Mason bees – bee houses in wood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Osmia_rufa_couple_(aka).jpg
Photo of an Red Mason Bee couple (osmia rufa) by André Karwath of German Wikipedia also known as AKA (André Karwath):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aka

Mason Bees:
http://www.farminfo.org/bees/mason-bees.htm

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/mason_bee/
Photo by Kim Taylor of Bruce Coleman Inc.

http://www.masonbeehomes.com/bee_houses.php
http://www.pollinator.com/mason_homes.htm
http://www.insectpix.net/Homes_for_bees.htm
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Brownfield sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfields
http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4902/focus/restoration/brownfield/
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Mass Mill – copper processing waste (stamp sands) cleanup:
(search for KBIC in followingf document)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdf
http://www.uprcd.org/projects.asp
http://www.upea.com/filesfordownloading/Baragadraft.pdf
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdf
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Dave Anthony & Northern Michigan University Center for Native American studies:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IEDSHighlights.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/AboutUs/AboutUs.shtml

Manoomin Project:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416108
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org/wildrice2007.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,215966.%20shtml
http://blog.americanfeast.com/indigenous_food
http://www.goodnewsdaily.com/show_story.php?ID=3500

Manoomin Project Videos:
http://blip.tv/file/549632
http://blip.tv/file/341528/
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Dreamcatcher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(Native_American)
http://www.dreamcatcher.com/home.php
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Northern white cedar:
http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blntwh.htm
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More on honeybee decline:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline
http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/pdf/pollination.pdf
The Value of Honey Bees As Pollinators of U.S. Crops in 2000 by Drs. Roger Morse and Nicholas Calderone of Cornell University (2000) :
Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in North America in late 2006.
European beekeepers observed a similar phenomenon in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree. Possible cases of CCD have also been reported in Taiwan since April 2007.
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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community teens protect pollinators in Zaagkii Project

29 08 2008

To read this article click on the following link:
Zaagkii KBIC newsletter (scroll down to page 4)

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Northern Michigan youth protect pollinators

25 08 2008

Native American youth and other Northern Michigan teens are protecting pollinators like butterflies because honeybees are dying by the billions across the world

Monarch Photos by Author Lynn Rosenblatt

Other photos by Greg Peterson

The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project is the latest youth environment project founded by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan in cooperation with the Marquette County Juvenile Court, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS).

The teens spent the summer building butterfly houses that offer protection, rest and an egg laying environment to Monarchs and other butterflies. The white cedar butterfly houses are lined with bark with slits that allow entry and are slimmer and longer than birdhouses.

The teens potted 26,000 native plant seeds at the Hiawatha National Forest greenhouse that will be transplanted across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula including 2.5 miles along Sand Point, a Lake Superior beach that was the first Native American Brownfield site in the Midwest after being contaminated 90 years ago by a copper refinery.

Monarch Photo by Author Lynn Rosenblatt

Other photos by Greg Peterson

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This was the first summer of a four-year project that will include numerous efforts to protect pollinators. Called Colony Collapse Disorder, honey bees are dying by the billions across the world and experts say feral and commercial bee colonies have declined by 70 to 90 percent in the past 25 years.

Over the centuries, bees have faced challenges including deadly mites but what alarms experts is how quickly the hives are collapsing. Possible reasons include climate change, stress and pesticides.

Monarch Female photo (bottom left) from Wikipedia by Ken Harrelson

Monarch Butterfly Male photo (bottom right) from Wikipedia by Derek Ramsey

Wikipedia Honeybee Photos by Björn Appel, Wikipedia (Username Warden) and by Waugsberg

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“The mystery of the dying bees” by COSMOS Magazine:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1087

The Zaagkii Project contributors and sponsors include the Marquette Community Foundation, the Negaunee Community Fund, the Negaunee Community Youth Fund, the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation, the Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation, the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum in Marquette, Mich. and the Borealis Seed Company in Big Bay, Mich.

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Contacts and Links related to the Zaagkii Project, the Cedar Tree Institute and related topics:

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Contacts:

KBIC Tribal Chair Warren C. “Chris” Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623 ext. 4104
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KBIC Vice Chair Susan LaFernier
906-353-6623
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KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)

Todd Warner, Director of KBIC Natural Resource Department
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Ph: (906) 524-5757 ext. 13
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Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD Natural Resources Specialist
906-524-5757 ext. 11
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KBIC NRD Staffers interviewed:
Katie Kruse, NRD Environment specialist
Char Beesley. Environment Specialist
Kit Laux, NRD Water Quality Specialist
(906) 524-5757
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Kim Klopstein, one of the summer youth supervisors for the KBIC Summer Youth Program
906-201-0020
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United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees United States Forest Service (USFS)
USDA USFS
Forest Service Eastern Region
626 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Suite 700
Milwaukee, Wis.
53202
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Jan Schultz, Botany & Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader
USFS Milwaukee
(414) 297-1189 (wk)
(414) 944-3963 (fax)
jschultz@fs.fed.us
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Jane Cliff, USFS Public Relations in Milwaukee
(414) 297-3664
jcliff@fs.fed.us
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Angie Lucas, contractor, Hiawatha National Forest Greenhouse Manager
(906) 228-8491
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Terry Miller, forest botanist
Hiawatha National Forest Office
Escanaba, Mich.
(906) 789-3319
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Deb LeBlanc, West Side Plant Ecologist
Hiawatha National Forest
Munising, Mich. Office
Does Monarch Workshops
(906) 387-2512 ext. 19
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Beekeeper Jim Hayward (Marquette Dentist by trade)
103 Buffalo Road.
Negaunee, Michigan
49866

(906) 475-7582
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Carole Touchinski, Marquette & Negaunee community foundations
(906) 226-7666
http://www.mqt-cf.org
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Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds founder & Executive Director of non-profit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
(906) 228-5494 (hm)
(906) 360-5072 (cell)
(906) 226-5072 (alt. home phone)
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Links:
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United State Forest Service (USFS) celebrating wildflowers website:

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/index.shtml

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml
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Cedar Tree Institute – non-profit in Marquette, Michigan:
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org
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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community:
http://www.kbic-nsn.gov
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Marquette County Juvenile Court:
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/probate.htm
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/courts.htm
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Marquette County Juvenile Coutr & Project WEAVE:
http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/?q=locations_marquette
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Borealis Seed Company
Big Bay, Michigan
Run by mother-daughter team of Judy Keast and Suzanne Rabitaille cultivating about 5 acres of a 20-acre spread three miles south of Big Bay, Michigan.
http://www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/index.html
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Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum
http://www.upcmkids.org/
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Monarch Watch::
http://monarchwatch.org/

Monarch Author Lynn M. Rosenblatt
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Magic.htm

Wikipedia Honeybee Photos by Björn Appel, Wikipedia Username Warden.
Edit by Waugsberg (cropped)
A honeybee on an apiary, cooling by flapping its wings in Tübingen-Hagelloch.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Honeybee-cooling_cropped.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Honeybee-cooling.jpg

Wiki Bee photos by Waugsberg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Biene_88a.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Biene_88a.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Bienen_im_Flug_52e.jpg
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Keweenaw Peninsula: Michigan’s Copper Country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan
http://www.unr.edu/sb204/geology/westernh.html
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West Virginia White Butterfly & killer Garlic Mustard Seed plants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_White
http://www.cbgarden.org/blog/index.php/tag/west-virginia-white-butterfly/
http://leapbio.org/west_virginia_white.php
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/3402_white_WV_ws.jpg

West Virginia White, Pieris virginiensis on wild mustard Photo by Randy L Emmitt
http://www.rlephoto.com/butterflies/white_wv01.htm
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Butterflies/Moths:
The Butterfly Site:
http://www.thebutterflysite.com/
Children’s butterfly links:
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Links.htm
Butterfly Encounters:
http://www.butterflyencounters.com/
Butterflys and Moths of North America:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators. 2006. Butterflies and Moths of North America. Bozeman, MT: NBII Mountain Prairie Information Node. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
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Deciduous forests:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous
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Viceroys:
Viceroy Butterfly mimics Monarchs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_butterfly
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Viceroy_Butterfly.jpg
Wikipedia Viceroy photo by Piccolo “Pic” Namek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PiccoloNamek

Mason Bees:
http://www.farminfo.org/bees/mason-bees.htm

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/mason_bee/
Photo by Kim Taylor of Bruce Coleman Inc.

http://www.masonbeehomes.com/bee_houses.php
http://www.pollinator.com/mason_homes.htm
http://www.insectpix.net/Homes_for_bees.htm
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Brownfield sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfields
http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4902/focus/restoration/brownfield/
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Mass Mill – copper processing waste (stamp sands) cleanup:
(Search for KBIC in following document)
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdf
http://www.uprcd.org/projects.asp
http://www.upea.com/filesfordownloading/Baragadraft.pdf
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdf
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Dave Anthony & Northern Michigan University Center for Native American studies:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IEDSHighlights.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/AboutUs/AboutUs.shtml
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Manoomin Project:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416108
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org/wildrice2007.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,215966.%20shtml
http://blog.americanfeast.com/indigenous_food
http://www.goodnewsdaily.com/show_story.php?ID=3500

The Value of Honey Bees As Pollinators of U.S. Crops in 2000 by Drs. Roger Morse and Nicholas Calderone of Cornell University (2000) :

Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in North America in late 2006.
European beekeepers observed a similar phenomenon in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree. Possible cases of CCD have also been reported in Taiwan since April 2007.
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