Drastic honeybee deaths are threatening ecosystems and food production across the United States, and the White House now has a strategy to cater to the bees' needs.
The number of honeybee colonies has been cut in more than half since the 1940s, according to the White House's "National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honeybees and Other Pollinators." That's significant considering that pollinators, which includes the imperiled monarch butterfly, increase U.S. crop values by $15 billion.
"[The strategy] focuses on both immediate and long-term changes that can be made to improve the well-being of pollinator populations. Consequently, the strategy addresses the many factors impacting pollinator health, including certain land-use practices, declining forage and nesting resources, pests and diseases, pesticides and bee biology," the White House said in the report...more
Just Another Bee Bailout by the DC Deep Thinkers, this time by El Presidente himself, otherwise known as Barack the Bee Keeper. General Motors survived it, let's hope the bees do too.
This is just an Obama slick trick to control more land and spend more money.
Personally, I wish he would quit cross-pollinatin' this country.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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