April Meeting - Tip-Toeing Through the Fairy Filled Pools with Sarah Red-Laird

At 6pm join us for Beginner Hour, covering tips for beginners and reccomended activites based on seasonality and local weather patterns. 

At 7pm join us as we talk with Sarah Red-Laird - Bee Girl Organization, Executive Director. In 2015, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) began a partnership with the Bee Girl organization to both provide pollination services for flowering plants, and also to monitor and document pollinator diversity in this rare and special habitat. Monitoring project manager, Sarah Red-Laird, will give a talk highlighting the history of this unique partnership, and the current findings including: vernal pool native flowers that honey bees love, the relationships observed between honey bees and native bees, and the diversity of species of bees that this corner of the world hosts