wildflower
06-28-2007, 07:31 PM
Hi Folks:
First of all we have five announcements.
Most important, we need to ask you to write a letter on behalf of pollinators.
1. The post office will be unveiling the Pollinator stamp tomorrow between noon and 1pm here at beekind. Be sure to come to buy the first ever edition of this beautiful stamp and celebrate with us!! 10% off everything in the store!!! Tomorrow only.
2 .The 2008 Honeybee and Beekeeping Symposium is set to happen again and for two days next year March 8th and 9th, 2008 at Summerfield Waldorf School.
3. Critical Elements of Beekeeping for Late Summer and Winter Management
(taught by Serge Labesque)$65.00
Sunday September 2, 10 am to 5 pm with one hour for lunch from 1-2pm. at beekind
4. Intro to beekeeping (taught by Doug Vincent) Saturday Sept. 29th
10am to 1pm at beekind
5. OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE
Please write a letter now on behalf of all the pollinators.
AB 771 puts seedless fruit above honeybees and other pollinators.
I believe, a very dangerous law should it pass.
Our last chance to comment is before July 3.
The law as it is written:
https://www.legis.state.wi.us/2003/data/AB-771.pdf
Your legislatures
https://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
Also send a copy to Senator Barbara Boxer
My letter below:
Senator Carole Migden
State Capitol
Room 5114
Sacramento, Ca
95814
Dear Senator Migden: June 27, 2007
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) along with eight other co-sponsors introduced the Pollinator Research Act of 2007 yesterday. This worthy and desperately needed bill provides significant funding for research that will improve the security of crop pollination and support strong populations of honeybees and native bees.
The US postal service is unveiling a stamp that celebrates native pollinators on June 29th, 2007. The US Senate designated June 24 through June 30 as National Pollinators Week. Do you see a pattern here?
Here are some of my concerns: AB 771, a California State bill introduced by Assemblyman De Leon, a bill that puts seedless fruit above the concerns of pollinators, should be of great concern to anyone who would hope to consume, garden, farm or enjoy a variety of fresh and naturally grown fruits, vegetables and legumes. Perhaps you do not realize what the passage of this hurtful and controlling piece of legislation can do and/or will lead to! AB 771 needs to be nipped in the bud. Time is of the essence here, the final vote is July 3. I frankly thought it would never fly and now we are running out of time.
Seedless fruit and vegetables are not responsible for providing us with eighty percent of all the food we consume. Pollinators are! Before we enact a law protecting seedless fruit or vegetables, shouldn’t we enact and follow laws protecting honeybees and native pollinators? Restoring (not destroying) pollinator’s resources should be our first course of action. Honeybees can help restore native pollinators in an area. Please go to the following website addresses and read the essays by Dr. Eric C. Mussen, UC Davis, California Extension Apiculturist, Department of Entomology for better understanding of the importance and critical timing of these concerns!
∑ Impact of Honey Bees on the California Environment
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Mussen/beebriefs/HB_and_CA_Native_Plants.pdf
∑ DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF HONEY BEES!
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/DontUnderEstim-02.pdf
∑ Dr. Eric Mussen’s March/April 2007 Newsletter (concerning CCD and more)
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/MarApr2007.pdf
We are in the midst of a thirty-year decline of honey bees and native pollinators! Anything that further threatens the pollinators dwindling habitat should be of great concern! Seedless fruits can wait. If we lose ground with the pollinators, we may never be able to regain our food crop pollinators.
There are so many near extinct native species of plants that depend on local honeybees and native pollinators. These pollinators need be present year-round to help many native plants survive or comeback year to year. Removing pollinators for any period of time is detrimental to the environment. If AB 771 passes, seedless growers could buy various 6 acre (or larger) parcels within any desired sector with a goal of virtually outlawing pollinators for miles, countywide and perhaps statewide for a given period. Sounds a bit like piece mealing to me. I believe a full environmental impact report is necessary before this type of legislation can continue even in discussion.
This bill may be labeling pollinators as pests. Any permission to use pesticides to prevent seedless fruits or vegetables from being pollinated is a ruthless license to kill valuable pollinators! This will be the course of action as native pollinators will also pose a threat to the precious deep pockets of the seedless growers. Please do not be fooled by this bill. The use of pesticides to kill pollinators will most likely become the norm. Please consider what the lack of these flying insects will do to the food source of, and the populations of, wild birds (also in serious decline)! All this is to satisfy a few human palates and pocket books.
The Senate has spoken, concern is growing and we need more time to research and understand why our pollinators are in desperate decline before we enact any more measures to reduce their forage or harm them! Cross-pollination is not the end of the world, but the loss of our pollinators just may be. Let the birds and the bees survive! I beg you, please do not allow AB 771 to become law.
Sincerely,
Kathleen F. Vincent
Concerned beekeeper (non-migratory)
Home: 11719 Hwy. 116, Guerneville, CA 95446
Work: 921 Gravenstein Hwy. S. Sebastopol, CA 95472
Mail: PO Box 1185, Forestville, CA 95436
Phone: (707) 824-2905
cc: Senator Patricia Wiggins
cc: Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
cc: Assemblywoman Patty Berg
cc: Assemblyman Jared Huffman
cc: Senator Barbara Boxer
First of all we have five announcements.
Most important, we need to ask you to write a letter on behalf of pollinators.
1. The post office will be unveiling the Pollinator stamp tomorrow between noon and 1pm here at beekind. Be sure to come to buy the first ever edition of this beautiful stamp and celebrate with us!! 10% off everything in the store!!! Tomorrow only.
2 .The 2008 Honeybee and Beekeeping Symposium is set to happen again and for two days next year March 8th and 9th, 2008 at Summerfield Waldorf School.
3. Critical Elements of Beekeeping for Late Summer and Winter Management
(taught by Serge Labesque)$65.00
Sunday September 2, 10 am to 5 pm with one hour for lunch from 1-2pm. at beekind
4. Intro to beekeeping (taught by Doug Vincent) Saturday Sept. 29th
10am to 1pm at beekind
5. OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE
Please write a letter now on behalf of all the pollinators.
AB 771 puts seedless fruit above honeybees and other pollinators.
I believe, a very dangerous law should it pass.
Our last chance to comment is before July 3.
The law as it is written:
https://www.legis.state.wi.us/2003/data/AB-771.pdf
Your legislatures
https://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
Also send a copy to Senator Barbara Boxer
My letter below:
Senator Carole Migden
State Capitol
Room 5114
Sacramento, Ca
95814
Dear Senator Migden: June 27, 2007
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) along with eight other co-sponsors introduced the Pollinator Research Act of 2007 yesterday. This worthy and desperately needed bill provides significant funding for research that will improve the security of crop pollination and support strong populations of honeybees and native bees.
The US postal service is unveiling a stamp that celebrates native pollinators on June 29th, 2007. The US Senate designated June 24 through June 30 as National Pollinators Week. Do you see a pattern here?
Here are some of my concerns: AB 771, a California State bill introduced by Assemblyman De Leon, a bill that puts seedless fruit above the concerns of pollinators, should be of great concern to anyone who would hope to consume, garden, farm or enjoy a variety of fresh and naturally grown fruits, vegetables and legumes. Perhaps you do not realize what the passage of this hurtful and controlling piece of legislation can do and/or will lead to! AB 771 needs to be nipped in the bud. Time is of the essence here, the final vote is July 3. I frankly thought it would never fly and now we are running out of time.
Seedless fruit and vegetables are not responsible for providing us with eighty percent of all the food we consume. Pollinators are! Before we enact a law protecting seedless fruit or vegetables, shouldn’t we enact and follow laws protecting honeybees and native pollinators? Restoring (not destroying) pollinator’s resources should be our first course of action. Honeybees can help restore native pollinators in an area. Please go to the following website addresses and read the essays by Dr. Eric C. Mussen, UC Davis, California Extension Apiculturist, Department of Entomology for better understanding of the importance and critical timing of these concerns!
∑ Impact of Honey Bees on the California Environment
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Mussen/beebriefs/HB_and_CA_Native_Plants.pdf
∑ DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF HONEY BEES!
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/DontUnderEstim-02.pdf
∑ Dr. Eric Mussen’s March/April 2007 Newsletter (concerning CCD and more)
https://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/MarApr2007.pdf
We are in the midst of a thirty-year decline of honey bees and native pollinators! Anything that further threatens the pollinators dwindling habitat should be of great concern! Seedless fruits can wait. If we lose ground with the pollinators, we may never be able to regain our food crop pollinators.
There are so many near extinct native species of plants that depend on local honeybees and native pollinators. These pollinators need be present year-round to help many native plants survive or comeback year to year. Removing pollinators for any period of time is detrimental to the environment. If AB 771 passes, seedless growers could buy various 6 acre (or larger) parcels within any desired sector with a goal of virtually outlawing pollinators for miles, countywide and perhaps statewide for a given period. Sounds a bit like piece mealing to me. I believe a full environmental impact report is necessary before this type of legislation can continue even in discussion.
This bill may be labeling pollinators as pests. Any permission to use pesticides to prevent seedless fruits or vegetables from being pollinated is a ruthless license to kill valuable pollinators! This will be the course of action as native pollinators will also pose a threat to the precious deep pockets of the seedless growers. Please do not be fooled by this bill. The use of pesticides to kill pollinators will most likely become the norm. Please consider what the lack of these flying insects will do to the food source of, and the populations of, wild birds (also in serious decline)! All this is to satisfy a few human palates and pocket books.
The Senate has spoken, concern is growing and we need more time to research and understand why our pollinators are in desperate decline before we enact any more measures to reduce their forage or harm them! Cross-pollination is not the end of the world, but the loss of our pollinators just may be. Let the birds and the bees survive! I beg you, please do not allow AB 771 to become law.
Sincerely,
Kathleen F. Vincent
Concerned beekeeper (non-migratory)
Home: 11719 Hwy. 116, Guerneville, CA 95446
Work: 921 Gravenstein Hwy. S. Sebastopol, CA 95472
Mail: PO Box 1185, Forestville, CA 95436
Phone: (707) 824-2905
cc: Senator Patricia Wiggins
cc: Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
cc: Assemblywoman Patty Berg
cc: Assemblyman Jared Huffman
cc: Senator Barbara Boxer