Women are the superhero allies of pollinators, champions of the role bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects play on our land! With the decline of pollinators due to invasive species, habitat loss and pesticide use, our role is more critical than ever.
In this webinar we learned about practical ways to build your land into a sanctuary for pollinators such as creating nesting places and planting milkweed.
WiWiC Host: Allison Crook
Speaker: Britta Petersen, Pheasants Forever
Landowner Share: Skye Bruce, Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative
Britta Petersen, Pheasants Forever, Senior Farm Bill Biologist with Pheasants Forever
As a Pheasants Forever Farm Bill biologist, she helps private landowners with technical assistance on their property and enrollment into Farm Bill programs, with a focus on habitat creation and management as well as outreach and education. Britta has been with Pheasants Forever for 5+ years based in the Driftless area covering 6 counties. In her free time she enjoys hiking, hunting, cross country skiing, botanizing, and habitat restoration work.
Skye Bruce, Circadian Organics, Driftless Seeds, and Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative
Skye is the coordinator of the Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative and also a farmer. She and her husband founded Circadian Organics in Ferryville, WI, where they previously ran a CSA and now focus on growing vegetable and flower seeds for their new retail venture, Driftless Seeds. As coordinator of the Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative, Skye works with partners from over 50 other organizations, agencies, and groups in Wisconsin that work to establish monarch habitat in the state. Skye recently earned her PhD in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a research focus on butterfly conservation and ecology in Wisconsin grasslands. Her work centered on optimizing butterfly habitats in both protected and pastured grasslands for monarchs and other butterfly species.
Here are some key links shared by Britta in the chat during the webinar:
https://wisconsinbutterflies.org/butt...
https://www.pollinator.org/
https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/
https://theprairieenthusiasts.org/
https://www.pheasantsforever.org/Habi...
Here are key links from Skye:
wimonarchs.org/resources
www.driftlessseeds.com
Free milkweed seeds https://swibirds.org/milkweed-request...
Free milkweed plugs https://monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...
Wisconsin Monarch Conservation Strategy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nop3...
Bo Hendrickson, USFWS Wisconsin Habitat Restoration Technician
Phone Number: (715) 343-6215 Ext. 706
Email: [email protected]
Contact Bo for financial/technical assistance with a restoration project as small as ¼ acre or more.
https://www.xerces.org/
https://xerces.org/pollinator-conserv...
Book recommendation: Butterflies of the Northwoods
About Wisconsin Women in Conservation
WiWiC is a state-wide collaborative effort led by the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in partnership with Wisconsin Farmers Union, Renewing the Countryside and Marbleseed (formerly MOSES). A five-year multi-faceted project funded by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), WiWiC brings together Wisconsin women landowners, farmers, farmworkers, urban growers and conservationists to connect and learn about conservation practices, resources, and funding opportunities.
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