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to encourage farmers in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin to grow alfalfa, clover and other flowering habitat on working lands to benefit bees and other pollinators.
• In addition, the Administration's fiscal year 2015 budget proposal dedicates $71 million for efforts to respond to the decline in honey bee health and support their recovery. Included in this request is funding for the Pollinator and Pollinator Health Innovation Institute, which will support further exploration of the biological, environmental and management issues associated with honey bee decline.
• Additionally, this week we launched a new tool to increase public awareness about the reduction of bee populations. The People's Garden Apiary bee cam at our headquarters will broadcast honey bee hive activity live online at www.usda.gov/beewatch. To learn more about USDA and our partners' efforts to improve honey bee health and how you can help by adopting pollinator-friendly land management practices at home, on the farm, and within your local community, visit www.nrcs.usda.gov/pollinators.