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ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
Video: Wings & Seeds The Zaagkii Project
(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.
Zaagkii Project artwork created by a teen volunteer Bees are disappearing and it's not clear why - although human impact on the environment are among the
suspected causes like pesticides and global warming.
Marquette 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.
Butterfly houses, pictured above on poles, also offer rest to migrating monarchs and can be used for reproduction.
Marquette teens and two Zaagkii Project 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.
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 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).
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. --- 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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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) --- Jane Cliff, USFS Public Relations in Milwaukee (414) 297-3664 --- Angie Lucas, contractor, Hiawatha National Forest Greenhouse Manager (906) 228-8491 --- Terry Miller, forest botanist Hiawatha National Forest Office Escanaba, Mich. 906-789-3319 --- Deb LeBlanc, WestSide Plant Ecologist Hiawatha National Forest Munising, Mich. Office Does Monarch Workshops 906-387-2512 ext. 19 ------- Beekeeper Jim Hayward Negaunee, Michigan (906) 475-7582 ---- Carole Touchinski, Marquette & Negaunee community foundations 906-226-7666 --- Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds founder & Executive Director of non-profit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI) (906) 228-5494 (hm) --- Links: --- 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 --- Cedar Tree Institute - non-profit in Marquette, Michigan: http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org --- Keweenaw Bay Indian Community: --- Marquette County Juvenile Court: http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/probate.htm http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/courts.htm --- Marquette County Juvenile Court & Project WEAVE: http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/?q=locations_marquette --- 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 --- Upper Peninsula Children's Museum --- Bee Movie: Created in 2007 by Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks Animation --- Monarch Watch:: 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 --- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man --- 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://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 --- Bumblebees: Space For Nature Garden biodiversity forum 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). --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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, as well 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://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 --- Wikipedia on Cultivars & Hybrids: A cultivar is a particular variety of a plant species or hybrid that is being cultivated and/or is recognized 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 --- Keweenaw Peninsula: Michigan's Copper Country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan http://www.unr.edu/sb204/geology/westernh.html --- 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 --- 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 --- Deciduous forests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- Brownfield sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfields http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4902/focus/restoration/brownfield --- 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 --- 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: --- Dreamcatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(Native_American) http://www.dreamcatcher.com/home.php --- Northern white cedar: http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blntwh.htm --- 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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