Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Celebrating Stewardship Week!


As a part of the Guernsey county community  for 73 years, we want to remind you that each of us has a connection to natural resources. The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) is celebrating the 60th year of Stewardship week April 26 – May 3, 2015. The 2015 Stewardship Week is themed, “Local Heroes – Your Hardworking Pollinators”.
         
             “The world is all abuzz about pollinators! Pollinators play a critical role in our everyday lives, and it’s important that we work to protect their habitat.  While many pollinators may seem like just annoying insects, they are actually a very important part of the web of life upon which we all depend. Pollinators form the underpinning of a healthy and sustainable future for food and the environment, but they have shown disturbing signs of decline in recent years. When pollinators shrink in number, many plants either produce less seed or no seed at all. The bottom line is, when pollinators start disappearing, plants start disappearing.

Most plants depend upon pollinators to reproduce. While animals can travel and move around to find mates and reproduce, plants are rooted to one spot. Therefore, plants depend on pollinators to move pollen from their anthers to their stigma. On planet Earth there are more than 100,000 species of insects, including bees, flies, moths, butterflies and beetles that work hard as pollinators. There are also over 1,000 species of other animals such as birds, reptiles and mammals, including bats that pollinate plants.  Your local conservation district can assist you in maintaining or developing habitat for pollinators.

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