Raising awareness is 1st step to helping bees

A recent article in your paper by Marion Ceraso from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism criticized the Wisconsin State Pollinator Plan for not doing enough to help Wisconsin’s bees.

For the last year, my research group in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Entomology has been working with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to develop a State Pollinator Protection Plan.

The story grossly mischaracterized the process of how the plan was created, suggesting that it was somehow undermined by agrichemical interests....

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Ken Notes: Attention media, this is worth looking into. We need to talk about this issue and working together on solutions.