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plants by Heidi Fleury, the District's Conservation
Coordinator, Gardiner developed a resolution to
be presented to the Montana State Association of
Conservation Districts (MACD). In 2017, MACD passed
an official statewide resolution making pollinator
conservation a priority. Also supported on the national
level, projects to promote pollinator habitat have become
a conservation focus throughout Montana and the
United States.
"My favorite fact is that one out of every three bites of
food you take, you can thank a pollinator for producing,"
says Heidi Fleury, with the Lake County CD. Thirty-
five percent of global crop production is dependent on
pollinators. "We're focused on making sure there's a
large amount of habitat out there for honey bees and
other pollinators year-round."
As of 2017, Fleury said Lake County had tallied at
least 100 pollinator plots measuring 2,500 square feet
or less. The Lake County CD has offered a seed mix at
no cost to landowners who want to participate. Jon
and Jean Gravning are Lake County residents whose
interest in honey bees and insects in general led them to
plant pollinator habitat the year before the local CD was
offering seeds, and then to double the size of their
garden to 5,000 square feet after they heard about
the free seed mix.
Bees on fall foliage at the Vilicus Farms, Havre, MT.
Photo:
Eliza
Wiley
