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Pollinator Pathway Kent The Town of Kent, CT has joined the Pollinator Pathway, an initiative to create corridors of pesticide-free habitat and safe food sources for pollinating insects, birds, and other wildlife. As an initial step, the Kent Land Trust (KLT) (home to a pollinator garden) has linked with the Kent Garden Club and the Kent Conservation Commission (KCC) to create pollinator-friendly habitat in the town of Kent, CT. We have spent the last year tabling information at various town events to educate and spread the word to our community and we continue to look for private residents of the town who will commit to eschewing pesticides, controlling invasive plants which are dangerous to pollinators, and planting and conserving native plants that are favorable to pollinators in an effort to expand the Pollinator Pathway in our area. As more residential and (even commercial) properties join this effort, quality habitat is created, allowing pollinators to proliferate. Please befriend these creatures that make life on earth possible and beautiful by becoming a new member of the Kent Pollinator Pathway. During the cold and dreary month of January, we hosted Professor Douglas Tallamy for an inspiring webinar that we think will interest those of you pursuing this page. https://youtu.be/dRkUfIlPKO4 Pollinators can be a variety of different animals and insects such as birds, bees, moths, bats, and flies. Our pollinators are important for a variety of reasons and they ensure we have healthy, delicious food; every 1 out of 3 bites that you take is provided for us by pollinators. Whether the property is a home, business, or public space, we invite you to register today and "bee" a part of the pollinator pathway here in Kent, CT! Join the pathway today and pledge to protect our pollinators with three easy practices: - Try to manage your invasive species and plant more native species. - Try to avoid the use of pesticides and herbicides. - Consider leaving your leaves and deadwood on your property because it acts as a shelter for insects during the winter while also acting as a natural mulch and compost that provides nutrients to your soil. Join The Pollinator Pathway We are supported by: Kent Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts Kent Chamber of Commerce Kent Farmers Market Kent Land Trust Marble Valley Farm Kent Center School Kent Conservation Commission Kent Garden Club Kent Memorial Library Marvelwood School You can find more information about the Pollinator Pathway in Kent at the Kent Land Trust webpage https://www.kentlandtrust.org/taking-care-of-your-land Our Partners Please like our Kent Land Trust social media for current information and events regarding pollinators and the pathway and email us at: info@kentlandtrust.org .

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Pollinator Pathway West Sayville West Sayville is a hamlet located on the South Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It is part of Islip Township, which is the third largest Township in The State of New York. West Sayville's coastline borders the Great South Bay and has a total area of 2.10 square miles. West Sayville is part of the Islip Township Pollinator Pathway and is part of the Suffolk Alliance for Pollinators (SAP). West Sayville is home to the L.I. Maritime Museum, the historic "Greene House", The Mansion at West Sayville (Meadowridge), Charles R. Dominy Park, and Green Creek County Park/Marina. Native Gardens Include: Charles R. Dominy Park 200 Main Street. West Sayville, NY Green's Creek County Park/Marina Clyde Street & Cherry Avenue, West Sayville, NY Join The Pollinator Pathway For more information, please visit https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/about and https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/towns/islip. If you are interested in volunteering in Islip Township Pollinator Pathways, please contact us at Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com . Thank You. Islip Township https://www.islipny.gov/ Supervisor Angie Carpenter (631) 224-5500 supervisorsoffice@islipny.gov Office Address: Town Hall Second Floor 655 Main Street Islip, New York 11751 Department of Parks & Recreation: Commissioner Thomas Owens Office Address: Brookwood Hall 50 Irish Lane East Islip, NY 11730 Email: commissioner-rec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/parks-recreation-and-cultural-affairs Phone (631) 224-5411 Fax(631) 224-5440 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 4:30pm Department of Environmental Control (DEC) Commissioner Martin J. Bellew Office Address: Town Hall West 401 Main Street, Room 302 Islip, NY 11751 Email: commissioner-dec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/environmental-control Phone (631) 595-3630 Fax (631) 224-5651 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 5:00pm Islip Town Parks Foundation Website: https://isliptownparksfoundation.org/ Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com

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Pollinator Pathway Lemon Grove City-wide effort to help pollinators, organized by the Busy Bee Garden Co-op! The Busy Bee Garden Co-op is a neighbors helping neighbors initiative to create a greener, more bio-diverse Lemon Grove, while fostering community togetherness. Our goal is a healthier city, with equitable access to green spaces that benefit both pollinators and citizens. These efforts are supported by the following organizations: The Lemon Grove Garden and Nature Club, Wild Ones San Diego, the Monarch Fellowship, and Caterpillar Chow Habitat Farms. Pollinator gardens can be found at: The Dartmoor Naturehood Project, Mariposa Lane (AKA: The Secret Path of Lemon Grove), the Lemon Grove Bistro, the Lemon Grove Historical Society, San Altos Elementary, and several homes around our wonderful city. Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/695202849323619 Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/busybee_coop/ Mariposa Lane Mariposa Lane is an important path created to help kids get to and from an elementary school. In 2016 a youth group painted a fun mural to make the path more interesting and inviting for the kids. The area would get overgrown with weeds and vegetation until the Busy Bee Garden Co-op took on the task of cleaning it up and planting a native pollinator garden! Now Mariposa Lane is enjoyed by all the neighbors in the area and includes a native seed library and interactive games for kids. Mariposa Lane's native plants now host several butterfly species and is a fabulous place to get up close to our many native bee species. To visit Mariposa Lane, just Google Map: Secret Path of Lemon Grove Join The Pollinator Pathway

Pollinator Pathway Royal Oak The City of Royal Oak, Michigan is part of the Great Lakes Region and Detroit metropolitan area. Royal Oak is situated on ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – The Three Fire Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Royal Oak is in the Eastern Temperate Forest of North America (EPA Ecoregions of North America). Royal Oak has several features directly supporting its Pollinator Pathway as well as residents who devote all or a portion of their home garden to a pollinator pathway. You can join the Pollinator Pathway!!! For Royal Oak residents, businesses, and organizations that have established a non-toxic, native plant garden to support pollinators, please take a moment to register on Pollinator-Pathway.org so your location shows up. The mix of locations with pesticide-free, native plantings include two nature preserves managed by community volunteers, pollinator plantings at the Detroit Zoo, residents' gardens, a community garden, middle school garden, and native plantings in public parks. Some highlights of RO native plant gardens creating a local pollinator pathway include: The Royal Oak Middle School has a native plant pollinator garden and garden art prepared and installed by the National Junior Art Honor Society. (Established Spring 2023) The RO Community Garden managed by the RO Garden Club, includes a native plant pollinator garden around its perimeter as well as an herb garden. (Established 2022) In 2021, Royal Oak passed its first Sustainability & Climate Action Plan, which includes increasing the use of native plants in city owned as well as encouraging their use in private properties. The Detroit Zoological Society, with its main Zoo located in Royal Oak, includes a native plant butterfly garden and a native plant, tree, and species pond area as well as some community supported native plantings on their grounds. Royal Oak is a city of parks and gardens with more than 310 acres devoted to 51 parks including two pristine, natural reserves (Cummingston Park and Tehave Woods). The Royal Oak Nature Society, a volunteer group, stewards the nature reserves as well as the Fred A. Erb Arboretum that includes native plants and trees not found in Tenhave and Cummingston. Tenhave Woods Tenhave Woods is located within (gated area) Quickstad Park 3900 Marais Avenue (Normandy & Lexington) Royal Oak, MI 48067 Tenhave Woods is a nature preserve and conservancy park managed by the all volunteer Royal Oak Nature Society and located within Quickstad Park in Royal Oak, Michigan. Tenhave Woods encompasses about 22 acres, which is mostly wooded with lined trails as well as a pond. As a protected area, a mix of trees and woodland native plants and flowers thrive here. Tenhave Woods is open to the public from dusk to dawn daily. Because it is a preserve for pollinators, animals, trees, and plants, visitors are kindly requested to not bring pets into the preserve. Located near the high school and senior center, Tenhave Woods was named in 1999 after Hessel Tenhave, a high school biology teacher who taught in Royal Oak for 34 years and often utilized the woods to impress the importance and beauty of the environment on his students. Walter Nickel, former naturalist for Cranbrook institutions, said, “This is one of the finest acreages of hard woods that I have ever seen in this area.” For pollinators, Tenhave Woods has extensive blooming early spring native flowering plants among many others. For more information about Tenhave Woods and the Royal Oak Nature Society please visit romi.gov/nature Fred A. Erb Arboretum The Fred A. Erb Arboretum is a 4 1/2 acre park located around three sides of the City of Royal Oak Senior Center. The Arboretum provides visitors a window to the many varieties of native species, plants, shrubs, and trees, that can be enjoyed throughout the year. When visiting, please enjoy your walk through the arboretum and hopefully learn or see something interesting in each plant community! The arboretum, managed by the all volunteer Royal Oak Nature Society, adds to their ability to teach about the area’s Great Lakes ecosystems, and encourage residents to use environmental beneficial native plants around their homes. The development of the arboretum began in 2007. The long-range plan for the arboretum is to create a collection of native trees/plants that are not found in nearby Tenhave Woods. In 2008, The Royal Oak Nature Society began restoring the native plant community in what is now known as the Fred A. Erb Arboretum. The Nature Society’s early efforts in the arboretum focused on identifying and preserving native trees and shrubs and removing invasive species by the Nature Society with support from Eagle Scout Project work crews and various conservation/community groups. Today, there are fields of native flowers as well as shrubs and trees. In 2023, the Era Family Foundation donated funds to plant an additional 100 trees native to the ecological region. The Royal Oak Nature Society will manage the tree planting, which will be done over two years with the support of volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please email naturesociety@romi.gov or call 248-246-3380 & leave a message. Everyone is invited to join the Pollinator Pathway. To join please make a commitment to: Pesticide-Free Gardening, Support and/or Add a Mix of plants native to our ecological region, remove invasive plants, find spaces to leave the leaves in support of pollinators, and register on the Pollinator Pathway map. Join the Pollinator Pathway If you have questions, please email RoyalOakNativePlants@yahoo.com This effort is to encourage documentation of local Royal Oak efforts already contributing to the local Pollinator Pathway and to encourage more residents, organizations, and businesses to join. For Royal Oak residents when you join, if you would like a Pollinator Pathway sign for your garden, please email RoyalOakNativePlants@yahoo.com RoyalOakNativePlants@yahoo.com

Pollinator Pathway North Haven The Pollinator Pathway in North Haven The North Haven Garden Club has put the Town of North Haven on the map as part of the Pollinator Pathway. You will be noticing “Pollinator Pathways” signs as you drive around North Haven and other Towns throughout the state. We have many Pollinator Gardens in North Haven that The North Haven Garden Club has planted and tends to and also Land Trust Properties and Open Space Lands. WHAT IS A POLLINATOR PATHWAY: It is a wildlife corridor providing habitat and nutrition for pollinators. It includes healthy yards and public spaces for pollinators, pets and families. WHAT ARE POLLINATORS: Birds, Bees, butterflies and other insects, bats and other mammal, rodents and amphibians. WHAT DO THEY DO: They move pollen from one plant to another, enabling cross fertilization and allowing the reproduction and the growth of new plants – 35% of our food grows as a result of the work pollinators do. WHAT IS THREATENING OUR POLLINATORS? Widespread applications of pesticides and other chemicals on lawns, landscaped plantings, and agricultural crops. Climate changes that lead to lack of larval host plants. The loss of habitat as more and more natural environments become urban and suburban. The spread of invasive (non-native) plants. HOW TO BE PART OF THE POLLINATOR PATHWAY: Plant Native Plants: Trees shrubs and wildflowers native to the area, plant a container or garden with pollinator plants, remove non-native invasive plants. Go Pesticide-Free: Landscape to a minimize tick habitat. Consider organic alternatives to poisons. Rethink Your Lawn: Consider using slow-release organic fertilizers, if any. Leave the clippings on your lawn rather than adding chemicals. Leave some leaves in beds for overwintering insects. Provide a source of clean water for the pollinators and birds. Leave some dirt patches for native ground nesting bees. These are just some of the ways you can help. The North Haven Garden Club invites Residents to join them and sign up to be part of the Pathway. Signs are also available for individual gardens for those that join. To learn more on how you can be a part of the Pathway contact Cindy @ nhgccindy@yahoo.com Pollinator Garden at Todds Pond over 800 feet of pollinator friendly plants Join The Pollinator Pathway Organizations Involved North Haven Garden Club, Town of North Haven nhgccindy@yahoo.com

Pollinator Pathway Old Lyme Pollinate Old Lyme! is a town-wide initiative to enhance pollinator pathways through the use of native plantings, elimination of herbicides and pesticides, and other habitat improvements for birds, butterflies, insects and other local pollinators. Pollinate Old Lyme! is an initiative of the Sustainable Old Lyme Team. Town Gardens Haines Park (Rogers Lake beachfront) The Rogers Lake Buffer Garden is a demonstration garden established as a riparian buffer, which is one of the best ways to protect against erosion and improve water quality by helping filter pollution and sediments from runoff entering the lake. It improves fish and wildlife habitat, and with its native plants it serves as a natural pollinator superstar. Cross Lane Playground The Cross Lane Butterfly Garden was built in 2019 by the Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women's Club as an attractive and educational garden adjacent to an active playground for small children. The garden includes numerous native plantings to attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PollinateOldLyme or email us at PollinateOldLyme@gmail.com . Join our email list for updates at PollinateOldLyme@gmail.com . Join The Pollinator Pathway Watch our introductory presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWT_RzRP3Uw&list=LL&index=1 Partners Pollinate Old Lyme! is an initiative of Sustainable Old Lyme in cooperation with a number of Town organizations including the Duck River Garden Club, Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center (Audubon), Lymes Youth Services Bureau, Old Lyme Land Trust, OL-PGN Library, Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women's Club, and various commissions of the Town of Old Lyme including the Tree Commission, Open Spaces, and the Conservation Commission. PollinateOldLyme@gmail.com

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Pollinator Pathway Kennebunk Converting Hellstrips to Native Garden Spots along with other school and municipal spots Join The Pollinator Pathway email someplaneteers@yahoo.com Partners The Planeteers of Southern Maine To learn more