Pollinator Work on Federal Lands

Organizer(s)

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  Michelle Boone (she/her/hers)

  Pollinator Project Manager
  Inventory and Monitoring Division
  National Park Service
  Portland, Oregon
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  Jonathan Koch

  Research Entomologist
  PWA-PIRU
  USDA-ARS
  Logan, Utah

This session highlights the diversity of pollinator work conducted by federal agencies, universities, private contractors, and non-profit organizations on federally managed land. Topics include inventory and monitoring, emerging methods for detecting pollinators, endangered species, and cutting-edge research. The session will close with cross-cultural collaboration for pollinator research and stewardship.

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle L. Boone (she/her/hers) – National Park Service
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM MST

  National Park Service pollinator inventory projects
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle L. Boone (she/her/hers) – National Park Service
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM MST

  Bumble bee inventory and assessment on US federal lands
  

  Presenting Author: Leif Richardson – Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

  Co-Author: Rich Hatfield – Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

  Co-Author: Hillary Sardiñas – California Department of Fish and Wildlife

  Co-Author: Dylan Winkler – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM MST

  Spatiotemporal patterns of pollinator diversity across national forests of the Southeast: A survey of the Experimental Forest Network
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Ulyshen – USDA-Forest Service
• 2:50 PM – 3:05 PM MST

  Are sites with rusty patched bumble bees special? Pathogen and pesticide patterns across the range of a federally endangered bumble bee
  

  Presenting Author: John Mola – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Justin Palmer – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Ravi Timsina – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Benjamin Sadd – Illinois State University

  Co-Author: Ian S. Pearse – United States Geological Survey
• 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM MST

  NRCS Plants Pollinator Interactions Database
  

  Presenting Author: Christine Taliga – USDA

  Co-Author: Diana Cox-Foster – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Cynthia Parr – USDA

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Hill – USDA-ARS
• 3:20 PM – 3:30 PM MST

  Break
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM MST

  Two bee or not two bee: Quantifying small pollinators on large landscapes
  

  Presenting Author: Olivia Carril – Bureau of Land Management
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM MST

  Three methods used to survey bees in historic orchards at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
  

  Presenting Author: Bryan Tronstad – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Lusha M. Tronstad, Ph.D. – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Kristen Engdahl – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Joseph Fife – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Emily Hagerott – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Daniel Jackson – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Fritz Maslan – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Morgan Wehtje – National Park Service

  Co-Author: Corrina Yobp – National Park Service
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM MST

  Using mark-release-recapture and distance sampling methods to estimate population size of Oregon silverspot butterflies
  

  Presenting Author: Izzy Bur (she/her/hers) – Washington State University

  Co-author: Cheryl B. Schultz – Washington State University

  Co-author: Erica Henry – Washington State University

  Co-author: Rich Van Buskirk – Pacific University
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM MST

  How feasible are non-lethal surveys of wild bees on NPS lands?
  

  Presenting Author: Jessie Thuma – Tufts University

  Co-Author: Rachael Winfree – Rutgers University

  Co-Author: Max William McCarthy – Rutgers University

  Co-Author: Nicholas Dorian – Chicago Botanic Garden

  Co-Author: Elyse Talley – Rutgers University

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Crone (she/her/hers) – University of California
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM MST

  Non-lethal bee surveys leveraging eDNA and image-based methods
  

  Presenting Author: Nevin Cullen – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch – USDA-ARS

  Co-Author: Michael G. Branstetter – USDA-ARS
• 4:45 PM – 4:55 PM MST

  Break
• 4:55 PM – 5:10 PM MST

  Forests for the bees: Enhancing pollinator habitat in log landings
  

  Presenting Author: Aliza Fassler – University of Massachusetts

  Co-Author: Susannah Lerman – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: David King – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: Lauren Pile Knapp – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: John Kabrick – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: Deborah Page-Dumroese – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-Author: Cheryl Coon – Hoosier National Forest

  Co-Author: Mark Vukovich – Shawnee National Forest

  Co-Author: Brian Davidson – Mark Twain National Forest

  Co-Author: Megan York-Harris – Mark Twain National Forest
• 5:10 PM – 5:25 PM MST

  Creating a buzz: Efforts to seed new yellow-faced bee populations using translocations
  

  Presenting Author: Sheldon Plentovich – United States Fish and Wildlife Service

  Co-Author: Paul Krushelnycky – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Molly O’Grady – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Maria Aihara-Sasaki – University of Hawaii

  Co-Author: Cynthia King
• 5:25 PM – 5:40 PM MST

  Wind turbines altered the bee and butterfly assemblages along a 28 km gradient of infrasound
  

  Presenting Author: Lusha M. Tronstad, Ph.D. – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Michelle Weschler, MSc – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Amy Marie Storey – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Joy Handley – Bureau of Land Management

  Co-Author: Bryan Tronstad – University of Wyoming
• 5:40 PM – 5:55 PM MST

  Collaborating for consilience research and stewardship across landscapes and cultures
  

  Presenting Author: Melanie Margarita Kirby, MSc – Institute of American Indian Arts
• 5:55 PM – 6:00 PM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle L. Boone (she/her/hers) – National Park Service