Northern Michigan youth protect pollinators

Posted by: yoopernewsman | August 25, 2008

Northern Michigan youth protect pollinators

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

USFS Success Story hails 2008-2010 Zaagkii Project
Posted by USFS on 2-02-2010

USFS Success Story on 2008 Zaagkii Project
Posted by USFS on 8-08-2008

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 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.

graphic courtesy of NativeVillage.org

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project Contacts and Related Links:

USFS Success Story hails 2008-2010 Zaagkii Project
Posted 2-02-2010

USFS Success Story on 2008 Zaagkii Project
Posted 8-08-2008

Larry Stritch
National Botanist USDA U.S. Forest Service
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Mail stop 1103
Washington, D.C.
20090-6090

1-202-205-1279 (Office)

email USFS National Botanist Larry Stritch

Larry Stritch honored for USFS Celebrating Wildflowers website

Above Photo of Larry Stritch from the Arizona Native Plant Society publication entitled “The Plant Press”

USFS wildflowers page

Wildflowers in the Eastern Region

Jan Schultz, USFS

Botany, Non-native Invasive Species

Special Forest Products Program Leader

USDA Forest Service Eastern Region

626 Wisconsin Avenue, 7th Floor

Milwaukee, WI

53203

1-414-297-1189 (wk)

1-414-944-3963 (fax)

email Jan Schultz

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USFS links and information page about plants, botany, the Zaagkii Project and other efforts to protect pollinators and the importance of native species plants

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Rev. Jon Magnuson

Founder of the three-year (2008-2010) Zaagkii Project

Executive Director of the Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute

402 E. Michigan St.

Marquette, MI

49855

email Rev. Jon Magnuson

906-228-5494 (hm)

906-360-5072 (cell)

Cedar Tree Institute (CTI) Winter 2009 Newsletter

Illustrator Diana Magnuson

Diana Magnuson biography
email Diana Magnuson

Kids Book website on illustrator Diana Magnuson of Marquette, MI

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NMU Students Leaders and volunteers for the Cedar Tree Institute and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project:

Erika Niebler

Erika is a Northern Michigan University (NMU) student and volunteers for numerous Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute initiatives including the Zaagkii Project, Zaagkii Project photographer, NMU Lutheran Campus Ministry student leader and photographer

1-763-670-0611

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Sarah Swanson

Sarah is a NMU student leader, volunteers for numerous nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Projects including the Zaagkii Project, Northern Michigan University (NMU) Student leader, Lutheran Campus Ministry leader including visited Nicaragua and educated Americans on importance of fair trade with Nicaraguan coffee farmers and others, served as NMU EarthKeeper (NMU EK) Student Team project director.

1-906-399-7113
email NMU Lutheran Campus Ministry

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Amanda Emerson

Amanda is a NMU student leader, and volunteers for numerous nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute projects including the Zaagkii Project and serves as project coordinator for the NMU EarthKeeper Student team

847-791-5693

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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

KBIC Tribal Council President Warren C. “Chris” Swartz Jr.

KBIC Vice Chair Susan LaFernier

906-353-6623

Todd Warner, Director of KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)

906-524-5757

Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD Natural Resources Specialist

KBIC NRD employees help build butterfly houses in 2008:

Katie Kruse, NRD Environment specialist

Char Beesley, Environment Specialist

Kit Laux, NRD Water Quality Specialist

Kim Klopstein, one of the summer youth supervisors for the KBIC Summer Youth Program

906-201-0020

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Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies (CNAS)

April Lindala, Director

112F Whitman Hall

906-227-1397 (office)
906-227-1396 (fax)
NMU Zaagkii Project Brochure:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/AboutUs/CommunityOutreach/zaagkii_brochure_inside_pages.pdf

NMU Anishinaabemowin Professor Kenneth Pitawanakwat

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NMU CNAS Zaagkii Project interns: Levi Tadgerson of Negaunee and sister, Leora Tadgerson of Marquette, members of Bay Mills Indian Community

906-360-0451 (Levi)

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USFS Zaagkii Project contacts:

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 at the Hiawatha National Forest Office in Escanaba, MI

Botanist Terry Miller is pictured planting plugs in this USFS photo

USDA USFS Hiawatha Forest District

2727 North Lincoln Road

Escanaba, MI

49825

906-786-4062
906-789-3319

Hiawatha National Forest website

Hiawatha National Forest Service offices

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Deb Le Blanc, WestSide Plant Ecologist at the Hiawatha National Forest office in Munising, MI

(Does Monarch Workshops)

Hiawatha National Forest hosted a National Monarch Butterfly Workshop during June 2008 in Marquette, MI

Deb Le Blanc, USDA
400 Munising Ave.
Munising, MI
49862

email Deb Le Blanc
906-387-2512 ext. 19

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Martial artist Rick Pietila of Marquette, MI

Pietilla is an instructor of San Shou, Tai Chi and other martial arts.

Rick Pietila’s other ongoing amazing adventures include traveling with several legendary Rock and Roll groups including being a guitar tech for the band Boston and traveled into South America with the band Stryper.

Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Winter 2008 newsletter that mentions Rick Pietila

Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Winter 2009 newsletter that mentions Rick Pietila
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Zaagkii Project story in Sept. 2009 Marquette Monthly

Zaagkii Project videos on youtube

Zaagkii Project videos on bliptv

Zaagkii Project wordpress blog

United State Forest Service (USFS) Celebrating Wildflowers and Pollinators websites

Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

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Marquette County Juvenile Court

Marquette County Juvenile Court and Project WEAVE

Jim Rule, a child care counselor at Marquette County Youth Home, is pictured on June 25, 2009 on a Zaagkii Project outing to the apiary owned by beekeeper Jim Hayward

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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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Dancing Crane Farm

Owned by Natasha and David Gill

Dancing Crane Farm has naturally grown and raised vegetables, flowers and more on 20 acres with almost five acres cultvated

Natasha and David Gill
Dancing Crane Farm
348 Lawson Road
Skandia, MI 49885

906-942-7975

info@dancingcranefarm.com

http://www.dancingcranefarm.com

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/internships/farmdetails.php?FarmName=&City=&State=MI&Keyword=&allDate=0&page=1&FarmID=1957

Assorted vegetables, herbs,flowers,and seedlings
Custom workshops, ongoing classes, farm tours, apprenticeships, volunteer opportunities, and an annual Harvest Party open to the public.
Produce can be purchased at the Marquette, Gwinn, and Munising Farmers Markets and at the Dancing Crane Farm.
Open June-October.

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Beekeepers:

Dr. Jim Hayward

Dr. Jim and Martha Hayward
103A Buffalo Rd.
Negaunee, MI
49866

906-475-7582

email Negaunee, MI beekeeper Dr. Jim Hayward

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Beekeepers:

Gather’n Greens
Negaunee Township, Michigan

906-475-9338
(no website yet)

Owned by Lee Ossenheimer and his wife, Dr. Lisa Long in Negaunee Township, MI along the Dead River.

The couple raise bees, make honey, grow mushrooms and grow seedlings for transplanting like peppers, tomatoes and about numerous herbs such as basil.

The couple has three children active in their nature-oriented, organic business:
Jesse Ossenheimer, 8; Lauren Ossenheimer, 5; and Alex Ossenheimer, 4.

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Beekeeper:

Jon Kniskern
Marquette, MI

Beekeeper Jon Kniskern is quoted in a March 3, 2009 article on a University of Minnesota annual “Short Course” entitled “Beekeeping in Northern Climates” at Borlaug Hall on the St. Paul campus
The story was published in the Minnesota Daily newspaper in Minneapolis/St. Paul

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Jim Edwards at the Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum who is in charge of “General Programming and Explainers Director”

Edwards teamed with the Zaagkii Project students to build a giant monarch butterfly in 2008 and a big bee hive in 2009 using art-related items at the museum in Marquette, MI

Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum

123 W. Baraga Avenue

Marquette, MI

49855

1-906-226-3911 (office)
1-906- 226-7065 (fax)

email Nheena Weyer Ittner, director of the U.P. Children’s Museum

email Jim Edwards, museum General Programming and Explainers Director

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Nativevillage.org main Zaagkii Page

NativeVillage.org 2009 Zaagkii Story and photos

NativeVillage.org 2008 Zaagkii Story and photos

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Zaagkii Project Credit for music used in videos:

Music on Zaagkii Project videos courtesy of Chicago area band Dragon Fire Parade, which has Upper Peninsula roots

Photo caption:
Members of the Chicago area band Dragon Fire Parade pictured are Andy Wicklund (upper left), Chris Hammond (upper right), Peter Nemanich (lower left) and Tim Obert (lower right).

Dragon Fire Parade:

Andy Wicklund, Guitar
Tim Obert, Guitar
Peter Nemanich, Bass
Chris Hammond, Drums

email Dragon Fire Parade

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Official band of the Cedar Tree Institute/Zaagkii Project annual Midsummer Festival:

Terracotta half-life

Terracotta half-life biography

Bio about the one and only Obadiah Metivier, a band member, overall techie genious and Zaagkii Project volunteer webmaster and technical guru

Jerry Kippola, Guitar

Aaron Kippola, Alto Saxophone, Percussion

Obadiah Metivier, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion

Jennie Peano, Vocals, Percussion

Steve Leuthold, Baritone and Tenor Saxophone, Flute

Dan Schaefer, Drums

Emmanuel Kawedi, Congas, Percussion, Vocals

Alumni – Keyboards, Guitars, Drums, Sax, Trumpet, Congas, Timbales, etc.

Upcoming Shows:

Wed 2/10/2010: Upfront
Fri 2/26/2010: Harley’s Lounge
Fri 3/12/2010: Marquette Food Co-op Meeting of Owners
Wed 3/24/2010: Upfront
Tue 7/13/2010: Menominee Summer Concert Series

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Marquette Mining Journal feature story #2 on Zaagkii Project on 12-13-08 about the first year of protecting pollinators

Marquette Mining Journal feature story #1 on Zaagkii Project on 7-14-08 about 208 annual Cedar Tree Institute annual Mid-Summer Festival in Marquette, MI

News From Indian Country (NFIC) feature story on Zaagkii Project

Indian Country Today feature stories on Zaagkii Project:

Part 1: Pollinator Preservation

Part 2: Sand Point Restoration
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Zaakii Project intern Leora Tadgerson to participate in a roundtable at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) 2010 National Conference on May 20-22, 2010 in Tuscon, AZ

Zaagkii Project and Northern Michigan Center for Native American Studies (NMU CNAS) participants:

NMU CNAS Conference info:
SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010
12:00-1:45 p.m.
118 ROUNDTABLE:
“Engaging Students through Community Action and Service”
Organizer & Chair:
Adriana Greci Green, Northern Michigan University

Participants include:
Leora Tadgerson, Zaagkii Project intern from Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies
Damien Lee, Trent University, Canada
Nicholas Estes, University of South Dakota
Karla Tait, University of South Dakota
Leya Hale, University of South Dakota
Linc Kesler, University of British Columbia, Canada
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NAISA 2010 Conference Program details
Preliminary Daily Schedule
The NAISA 2010 Conference is sponsored by the American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona

NAISA staff photo

Robert Warrior, NAISA President 2009-2010

email organizers of the NAISA 2010 Conference

Contact information:
Sunny Lybarger
1-520-626-7695
Tsianina Lomawaima
1-520-621-5083

Hotel registration info and the deadline for NAISA Group Room Rate April 18, 2010

1-520-742-6000

Westin La Paloma
3800 East Sunrise Drive
Tucson, AZ
85718

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Native Times newspaper aka Native American Times Zaagkii Project pollinators story
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Turtle Island News:

http://www.turtleisland.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=9683#9683
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Marquette Monthly Nov. 2008 (scroll down):

http://www.mmnow.com/z_current_a/b/c/city_notes.html

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Tree Hugger: (This article appeared on over 1,000 websites)

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/zaagkii–wings-seeds-project.php

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Zaagkii KBIC newsletter (scroll down to page 4):

http://www.kbic-nsn.gov/files/newsletter/Sept_2008.pdf

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Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Story on Zaagkii Project (Scroll down to page 7)

http://www.saulttribe.com/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=959&Itemid=266

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Great Story in Native Villge Web:

http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/MesPeo%20KBIC%20Tribal%20Youth%20Zaagkii%20Project/kbic_tribal_youth_protect_pollin1.htm

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Earth Times – London:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/michigan-teens-native-american-youth,593342.shtml

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Good News Network National Newspaper:

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

To see story – sign up for free 30 day trial by click on headline of story

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Monarch Watch:

Monarch Author Lynn M. Rosenblatt who wrote the book MONARCH MAGIC!

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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U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters and “The People’s Garden” in Washington, D.C. – Bringing Nature into the Public Realm: Green The Grounds

Feature stories on the People’s Garden in Washington, D.C. featured on discovery.com that is “Bringing Nature into the Public Realm: Green The Grounds” at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters:

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) story on ground broken on USDA USFS “The People’s Garden” in Washington, D.C.

USFS The Peoples Garden in Washington, D.C.

USFS News Release on The Peoples Garden

USFS sustainable operations information and links to articles including The Peoples Garden
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Wikipedia on Monarch butterflies and Lepidotera migration, a phenomenon where butterflies or moths migrate over long distances to areas where they cannot settle for long periods of time.

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Photo by Mila Zinkova of Monarch butterflies migration and cluster on Nov. 25, 2007 in Santa Cruz to spend a winter via Wikipedia Creative Commons. During migration Monarch butterflies travel up to three thousand miles.

email Mila Zinkova

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Photograph by Wikipedia user Bfpage of some of the overwintering monarch butterflies in Feb. 2000 at a preserve outside of Angangueo, Mexico. One tree is completely covered in butterflies.

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Artwork of Migrating butterflies aka Lepidoptera migration art

Artistic picture by Pilar Murillo of Spain
Wikipedia username: Pilar

flickr username: izarbeltza

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Wikipedia on Goldenrod
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Goldenrod photo by Kurt Stueber aka Kurt Stüber via Wikipedia creative commons

email Kurt Stueber

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Goldenrod Photo by Huw Williams – Wikipedia username Huwmanbeing

Goldenrod flowers photographed in western Fountain County, Indiana on September 15, 207 via Wikipedia creative commons
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Goldenrod and visiting Cerceris wasp by Wiki user Hardyplants via Wikipedia creative commons
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Goldenrod Photo by Georg Slickers taken on August 15, 2005 in Berlin, Germany via Wikipedia creative commons
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Pollinator Partnership

Pollinator Week is June 21-27, 2010

The fourth annual National Pollinator Week will be held from June 21-27th. Think about an event at your school, garden, church, store, etc.

Pollinators positively effect all our lives- let’s SAVE them and CELEBRATE them!

Pollinator Partnership Movie

Pollinator News from Pollinator Partnership
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North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
Working to protect the pollinators of the North American continent

North American Pollinator Protection Campaign #2 (NAPPC)

emails:
info@NAPPC.org; LDA@pollinator.org

Laurie Davies Adams
Executive Director
Pollinator Partnership
423 Washington Street
5th floor
San Francisco, CA
94111

415-362-1137 (wk)
415-362-3070 (fax)

Lots of different handouts & ideas for National Pollinator Week

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Wikipedia on Monarchs

Wikipedia page with a Female Monarch photo in May 2007 by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson

Wikipedia page with Male Monarch photo by Derek Ramsey (Wikipedia user name Ram-Man) at the Tyler Arboretum

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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).

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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

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Photo by By Debi Vort (Wikipedia Username Debivort) of 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.

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, Belgium.

A picture showing blueberry pollination by bumblebees, as well 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

Environmental Health Science of Columbia University

60 Haven Ave.

Room 100

New York, NY

10032

http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/ehs/index.html

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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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Bee Movie:

http://www.beemovie.com

Created in 2007 by Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks Animation

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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

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 following document)

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdf

http://www.uprcd.org/projects.asp

http://www.upea.com/filesfordownloading/Baragadraft.pdf

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Manoomin Project:

Manoomin Project: Restoring wild rice to seven remote Upper Peninusla lakes, stream as students planted over 1 ton of wild rice seeds with help from elders with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Another collaboration between the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute and the Keweenaw bay Indian Community

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

Manoomin Project counselor Dave Anthony, who belongs to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa (Ottawa) Indian, and 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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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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Smoking Allowed:

Being calmed by a smoker in the hands of beekeeper Dr. Jim Hayward, thousands of honeybees cling to the hive frame in June 2009 that is used by the bees to make honeycombs. (Photo by Erika Niebler)

Learning from a Master:

Zaagkii Project students watch beekeeper Dr. Jim Hayward use a gripper to remove frames from the hives behind his home in Negaunee, MI during June 2009. (Photo by Erika Niebler)

Teen Beekeepers:

Zaagkii Project volunteers Elliott Burdick (left), 17, a Marquette Senior High School (MSHS) senior and Taylor Dianich, 16, MSHS junior (right) stand next to honeybee hives in June 2009. (Photo by Erika Niebler)

2008 Zaagkii Projects Teens:

In July 2008 at the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute annual Mid-Summer Festival, Zaagkii Project teens told supporters what they were learning about pollinators and indigenous plants and wildflowers.

During the first summer (2008) of the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, teens built, painted and handed out butterfly houses – that a slimmer and longer than bird houses with entries for butterflies with folded wings and a slab of bark for rest and reproduction. (Photo by Greg Peterson)

Youth Protecting Pollinators:

In July 2008 , Zaagkii Project teens and project founder Rev. Jon Magnuson tell supporters at the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Mid-Summer Festival about what the students are doing during the first summer of the effort to protect pollinators. Magnuson is the executive director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI near Lake Superior. (Photo by Greg Peterson)

Cooking on all Burners:

Zaagkii Project teens help prepare the food at the annual Cedar Tree Institute Mid-Summer Festival during July 2008 in Marquette, MI.

Some of the students returned in 2009 to participate in the second summer of the Zaagkii Project during which mason bee houses were built, painted and distributed.
Both years the teens planted and distributed thousands of native species plants.
(Photo by Greg Peterson)

Like Shop Class:

Zaagkii Project teens use a variety of tools to construct mason bee houses during the summer of 2009 in Marquette, MI with help from former shop teacher Bruce Ventura of Marquette
(Above photos by Greg Peterson)

Organic Farm Wildlife:

Zaagkii Project teens check out a turkey at the Dancing Crane Farm in Skandia, MI where they helped with the native species plants. (Photo by Erika Niebler)

Organic Farms:

Learning importance of Native Species Plants to Pollinators …

Zaagkii Project students work with native species plants in the summer of 2009 at the Dancing Crane Farm in Skandia, MI (above two photos) and at the Borealis Seed Company (below two photos) in Big bay, MI during the summer of 2009
(Photos by Erika Niebler)

Native Species Plants:

The organic Gather’n Greens Farm in Negaunee Township, MI was another opportunity for students to grow native species plants during summer of 2009
(Photo by Erika Niebler)

Zaagkii Project teen Jacob Feliciano of Skandia, a Gwinn Middle School seventh grader, holds a kitten at the Dancing Crane Farm in Skandia, MI. The farm has lotds of exotic species of ildlife and the students learned respect for all of nature’s beings. (Photo by Erika Niebler)

Outstanding in Their Field:

(Photo by Erika Niebler)

Zaagkii Projects students including 13-year-old Tanya Nelson of ishpeming, MI making friends with a Turkey (above) and a goat (below) at the Dancing Crane Farm in Skanida, MI.
(Photos by Erika Niebler)

Tea Time:

Herbal Tea from Native plants in northern Michigan …

During summer of 2009, Zaagkii Project teens learned how to make a variety of herbal teas using indigenous plants/herbs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
(Photo by Erika Niebler)

Food, Food Food:

Energizing the Zaagkii Project teens …

Zaagkii Project teens were always prepared a nutritional lunch while on many outings during the summer 2009. The teens learned that all the food they are would not be available if nbot for pollinators who make plants and veggies grow for salads and to provide feed for animals.
(Above photos courtesy Erika Niebler and Greg Peterson)

Youth, KBIC employees:

Learning how to respect the environment from Native American elders and youth …

(Photos by Greg Peterson)

The Zaagkii Project thanks KBIC official Todd Warner, Director of KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)

KBIC NRD employees help build butterfly houses in 2008

Those helping were tribal members Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD Natural Resources Specialist; Katie Kruse, NRD Environment specialist; Char Beesley, Environment Specialist; Kit Laux, NRD Water Quality Specialist; and Kim Klopstein, one of the summer youth supervisors for the KBIC Summer Youth Program

For more info call 906-201-0020

KBIC Pow-wow:

Zaagkii Project students and the tribe’s summer youth were honored the 2008 Pow-wow at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Baraga, MI. (Photo by Greg Peterson)

Hearty Greens:

Big leafy greens not possible without pollinators …

Behind some gigantic heads of greens, Zaagkii students learned that nothing grows without pollinators
(Photo by Erika Niebler)

A Great Lake:

Zaagkii Project teens were taught an appreciation for all natural things and enjoyed this respite during 2009 in the chilly summer waters of Lake Superior in Marquette, MI – the world’s largest freshwater lake.
(Photo by Erika Niebler)

Hanging in Nature:

(Next five photos by Erika Niebler)

(Above five photos by Erika Niebler)

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators