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At Pollinate Minnesota, we’re working toward a MN that’s better for pollinators and people. <br />www.pollinatemn.org erin@pollinatemn.org, 612.245.6384 <br />5.Increase pollinator friendly habitat. <br />a.Use native, sustainably and locally sourced seeds and plants when possible. <br />b.Increase forage by over seeding managed lawns with clover. <br />c.Decrease herbicide use on managed lawns to increase flowering plants. Dandelions, <br />clover, and even creeping charlie provide critical food for our hungry bees, often at <br />times of year when they need it most. <br />6.Consider unique land management relationships; think about all the ways your <br />municipality interacts with land. <br />a.Increasing habitat on land you own, including parks, vacant lots, fire and policy <br />stations, water works, other municipality facilities. <br />b.Consider changing regulations to increase pollinator forage. <br />i.For example: Encourage pollinator friendly planting/systemic insecticide free <br />landscaping in new building development. <br />7.Source clean plants. <br />a.Amend purchasing policy to require plants be free of pollinator lethal insecticides. <br />Many nursery-grown plants are treated with systemic insecticides, but truly pollinator <br />friendly plants that aren’t treated are becoming more available. Ask for them. <br />b.Adopt clear guidelines against the use of pesticide-treated plants. Consider <br />pollinator-friendly amendments to your municipality’s Vegetation Management <br />Policy. <br />Include goals, timelines, and mechanisms to track success of the resolution. <br />8.Include dates and goal related specifics, from the amount of land transitioned to the <br />number of city departments who report IPM, to make your commitment to pollinator <br />health clear to the public. <br />9.Name a department to maintain an internal resource for other municipality departments <br />and be responsible for monitoring resolution success. <br />10.To celebrate an increase in the amount of pollinator forage, you need to know how <br />much you started with. Determining a baseline can be a part of the first stage in your <br />resolution. <br />Communicate! <br />11.Include public communication and education in your resolution. <br />a.Informed the public of your resolution and ongoing progress. <br />b.Engage and encourage the public to change their practices to be more pollinator <br />friendly. <br />c.Name a department responsible for this communication. <br />Engage in broader policy change. <br />12.Communicate your resolution to your elected officials, other government departments <br />and agencies, both locally and nationally, including agencies that manage land within <br />your municipality (like the Department of Transportation.) <br />13.Include statements in support of state and federal pollinator protection initiatives. An <br />example from Minneapolis’s resolution: “Be it further Resolved that the City of Minneapolis will <br />continue to advocate at the State and Federal level for increased authority to address the non-agricultural <br />use of pesticides, and for other pollinator-friendly policies” and from Seattle’s: “The Mayor and the <br />Seattle City Council strongly urges the US House of Representatives to pass the Save America’s <br />Pollinators Act (HR 2692).”