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Carson City's Bee City USA update: planting list, volunteer projects and a June Pollinator Palooza
Summary
Open Space staff updated the committee on Carson City's Bee City USA (No. 76) program, highlighting a pollinator-friendly plant list required in new developments, outreach events and partnerships that support pollinator habitat across city-managed lands.
Carson City's Bee City USA steering committee told the Open Space Advisory Committee that a mix of planting projects, education and developer requirements are expanding pollinator habitat across the city.
Lindsay Boyer, an open-space staff member and Bee City volunteer, said Carson City became a Bee City in 2018 and now requires developers to select 50% of their landscaping palette from a locally curated pollinator-friendly plant list. "We were the very first Bee City in Nevada and the 76th in the nation," Boyer said. The list is…
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