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Students urge Truckee to join Bee City USA to protect native pollinators
Summary
Students from Tahoe Expeditionary Academy asked the Town of Truckee to pursue Bee City USA designation through the Xerces Society, outlining habitat, pesticide, education and signage commitments and offering school support for outreach and an application fee contribution.
Students from Tahoe Expeditionary Academy asked the Truckee Town Council on June 24 to make the town a Bee City USA community, a designation administered by the Xerces Society that the students said would focus town and community efforts on protecting native pollinators.
The students told the council native bees — including mason, mining, sweat and leafcutter bees — are declining locally and nationally and said Bee City USA provides a structure for communities to add native plants, provide nesting sites, reduce pesticide use and…
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