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(Marquette, Michigan) - Northern Michigan teens are on a mission to protect pollinators by helping butterflies and restoring native plants to areas of the Upper Peninsula.Perhaps the best know pollinators are bees - like honey bees and bumble bees.Billions of these bees are dying across the world in a syndrome called Colony Collapse Disorder.Zaagkii Project artwork created by a teen volunteer Bees are disappearing and it’s not clear why - although human impact on the environment are among the suspected causes like pesticides and global warming.A world without bees would mean world without food. - as was dramatically pointed out in the Jerry Seinfield 2007 comedy - Bee movie.Bees go on strike causing plants across the world die - that means no food, no flowers, no trees - the death of civilization.After bees, the next best pollinators are butterflies.Marquette teens build a butterfly house in July 2008 in the parking lot of the Grace United Methodist Church.The butterfly houses are longer than the better known birdhouses and are lined with bark.Marquette, Michigan area teens and Native American youth spent the summer of 2008 building butterfly houses - that are longer and slimmer than birdhouses and are lined with bark.Teens participating in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Summer Youth Program built and painted the houses at the tribe’s Natural Resource Department along Lake Superior.KBIC Natural Resource Department Director Todd Warner said the Zaagkii Project is a good way for youth to become aware of their connection to natural resources and nature.The butterfly houses offer protection to butterflies that can enter thru tiny slits.Butterfly houses, pictured above on poles, also offer rest to migrating monarchs and can be used for reproduction.Marquette teens and two Zaagkii Project volunteers are pictured in July 2008 planting native plant seeds at the Hiawatha National Forest Green House in Marquette, MI Marquette teens have planted or distributed 26,000 native plant including at the Hiawatha National Forest greenhouse in Marquette.In the spring of 2009 some of the plants will be planted at several areas across northern Michigan including at Sand Point - a beach that the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community has been repairing from the effects of copper mining.The mine dumped copper processing waste into Lake Superior in the late 1800s and early 1900s - polluting miles of shoreline.KBIC Photo of Sand Point The tribe capped the pollution and the native plants will be used to attract wildlife and restore the ecosystem.The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project will enter its second year in the summer of 2009.This is the first of several videos on the many aspect of the Zaagkii Project that was founded by the non- profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette that has sponsored numerous environment projects.The three-year Zaagkii Project is sponsored by the CTI, Marquette County Juvenile Court, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS).Future videos will include a look at a bee farm in Marquette County that fascinated Zaagkii Project teens who received a close look at the hives and learned about the importance of pollinators.Pictured above, the Cedar Tree Institute held a BBQ in July 2008 to honor the Zaagkii Project teens at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, MI.The teens visited a KBIC pow-wow where they were recognized. And amongst numerous news stories done on project Jan Schultz of the USFS was interviewed by a California radio station about Zaagkii Project.All this in future videos.The Zaagkii Project is made possible by contributors like the Marquette Community Foundation, the Negaunee Community Fund, the Negaunee Community Youth Fund, the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation, the Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation, with assistance from the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum in Marquette, Mich. and the Borealis Seed Company in Big Bay, Mich.I’m Greg Peterson and you are watching Zaagkii TV-------Related items:-------Environment prayer thanks to EarthWords Dec. 14, 2008 issue - produced by Rev. Charlie West of the Grace UMC Church in Marquette - a leader in the Earth Keeper Initiative.Eternal God, your amazing power to innovate goes on forever, but in our time we are seeing your glorious Creation slipping away.Continue to touch our hearts with a concern for Creation; continue to give us wisdom and insight into Creation's healthy parameters; continue to draw us together on Creation's behalf and well-being.Then as the earth brings forth its shoots may our lives bring forth your love and justice and grace.--- EarthWords Suggests - Give a native species plant:Consider a (local) live plant gift, or perhaps even a contribution to purchase and preserve rain forest or some other wilderness place!EarthWords is produced by Charlie West InkEarthWords websiteemail EarthWords--- Austin, Texas Honeybee video courtesy: Johnnie HargravePhotos by Richard Burkmar; Paul Billiet & Shirley BurchillWikipedia photos by (Usernames when real name not available): Tübingen-Hagelloch, Björn Appel, Warden, Debi Vort, Kristof Van der Poorten, John Severns, Waugsberg, Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, Derek Ramsey, John O'Neill ---KBIC Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project contact info and web links---Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Contacts:KBIC Tribal Chair Warren C. “Chris” Swartz Jr.906-353-6623 ext. 4104---KBIC Vice Chair Susan LaFernier906-353-6623---KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)Todd Warner, NRD DirectorKBIC Natural Resource DirectorPh: (906) 524-5757 ext. 13---Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD Natural Resources Specialist906-524-5757 ext. 11---KBIC NRD Staffers interviewed:Katie Kruse, NRD Environment specialistChar Beesley. Environment SpecialistKit Laux, NRD Water Quality Specialist(906) 524-5757----Other KBIC Contacts:Kim Klopstein, one of the summer youth supervisors for the KBIC Summer Youth Program906-201-0020--------United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees United States Forest Service (USFS)USDA USFSForest Service Eastern Region626 E. Wisconsin Ave.Suite 700Milwaukee, Wis.53202--- USFS Official Jan Schultz speaks to Zaagkii Project supporters and volunteers in July 2008 at a Cedar Tree institute BBQ at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, MI Jan Schultz, Botany & Non-native Invasive Species Program LeaderUSFS Milwaukee(414) 297-1189 (wk)---Jane Cliff, USFS Public Relations in Milwaukee(414) 297-3664---Angie Lucas, contractor, Hiawatha National Forest Greenhouse Manager(906) 228-8491---Terry Miller, forest botanistHiawatha National Forest OfficeEscanaba, Mich.906-789-3319---Deb LeBlanc, WestSide Plant EcologistHiawatha National ForestMunising, Mich. OfficeDoes Monach Workshops906-387-2512 ext. 19-------Beekeeper Jim HaywardNegaunee, Michigan(906) 475-7582----Carole Touchinski, Marquette & Negaunee community foundations906-226-7666http://www.mqt-cf.org---Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds founder & Executive Director of non-profit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)(906) 228-5494 (hm)---Links:---United States Forest Service (USFS) celebrating wildflowers website:http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/index.shtmlhttp://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml---Cedar Tree Institute - non-profit in Marquette, Michigan:http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org---Keweenaw Bay Indian Community:http://www.kbic-nsn.gov---Marquette County Juvenile Court:http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/probate.htmhttp://www.co.marquette.mi.us/courts.htm---Marquette County Juvenile Court & Project WEAVE:http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/?q=locations_marquette---Borealis Seed CompanyBig Bay, MichiganRun by mother-daughter team of Judy Keast and Suzanne Rabitaille cultivating about 5 acres of a 20-acre spread three miles south of Big Bay, Michigan.http://www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/index.html---Upper Peninsula Children's Museumhttp://www.upcmkids.org---Bee Movie:http://www.beemovie.comCreated in 2007 by Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks Animation---Monarch Watch:http://monarchwatch.orgMonarch Author Lynn M. Rosenblatthttp://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Magic.htmNumerous Monarch related links:http://www.kidsgardening.com/pollinator/curriculum/resources.phphttp://www.insecta-inspecta.com/butterflies/monarch/index.htmlhttp://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/monarch.htmhttp://www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch---2009 National Pollinator WeekJune 22-28, 2009Two related groups - the Pollinator Partnership and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign - share offices in San Francisco.pollinators.org (Pollinator Partnership)nappc.org (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign)Pollinator PartnershipPollinator Partnership MoviePollinator News from Pollinator Partnership---North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Working to protect the pollinators of the North American continent emails:info@NAPPC.org; LDA@pollinator.orgLaurie Davies AdamsExecutive DirectorPollinator Partnership423 Washington Street5th floorSan Francisco, CA94111415-362-1137 (wk)415-362-3070 (fax)Lots of different handouts & ideas for National Pollinator WeekMichigan Pollinator Week 2008 & other info from last year and for this year------- Wikipedia on Monarchs:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_ButterflyFemale Monarch photo:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Monarch_In_May.jpgWiki May 2007 Photograph of a Monarch Butterfly by Kenneth Dwain HarrelsonMale Monarch Photo by Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) at the Tyler Arboretumhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Monarch_Butterfly_Danaus_plexippus_Male_2664px.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man---Bees disappearing around the world:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_declinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees_and_toxic_chemicalshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_beeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidacloprid_effects_on_bee_populationhttp://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?contentPageId=531&catalogId=10051&storeId=10001&langId=-1http://www.polinator.orghttp://www.vanishingbees.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_the_honey_beehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_arthropodWikipedia Honeybee Photos by Björn Appel, Wikipedia Username Warden.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WardenEdit by Waugsberg (cropped)A honeybee on an apiary, cooling by flapping its wings in Tübingen-Hagelloch.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Honeybee-cooling_cropped.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Honeybee-cooling.jpgWiki Bee photos by Waugsberghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Waugsberghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Biene_88a.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Biene_88a.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Bienen_im_Flug_52e.jpg---Bumblebees: Space For Nature Garden biodiversity forumhttp://www.wildlife-gardening.org.uk/default.asp?gallery=Galleries\Animals\Insects\Bumblebees\bombus-pascuorum-040616.xmlBumblebee Photo Copyright Richard Burkmar 2004. Permission is hereby granted for anyone to use this image for non-commercial purposes which are of benefit to the natural environment.Richard Burkmar (editor of Space for Nature) graduated from the University College of Cardiff in 1984 with a degree in zoology and a PhD in avian ecology in 1989. He currently works for Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service where he manages the North Merseyside Biodiversity Action Plan (Liverpool, St. Helens, Knowsley and Sefton Boroughs).---Bumblebees: Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centrehttp://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/bumblebees.htmlBumblebee photo by Oxford Bee Company/Buckingham Nurseries and Garden CentreBumblebees by Christopher O'Toolehttp://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk/acatalog/Index_Pollination_Bees_27.html#33171Chris O'Toole is the director of Bee Systematics and Biology Unit at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.He has written many books on insect natural history including Bees of the World and Alien Empire.Pictures and information provided by the Oxford Bee Company & Buckingham Nurseries and Garden Centre website---Wind Pollinated plants like Rye are important but are not food sources for pollinators:Wind Pollinated Rye photo by Paul Billiet and Shirley Burchillhttp://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0044.html---Wikipedia on Pollination:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PollinationAn Andrena bee collects pollen among the stamens of a rose. The female carpel structure appears rough and globular to the left. The bee's stash of pollen is on its hind leg.By Debi Vort (Username Debivort)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bee_pollenating_a_rose.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debivort---A European honey bee collects nectar, while pollen collects on its body.A European honey bee (Apis mellifera) extracts nectar from an Aster flower using its proboscis. Tiny hairs covering the bee's body maintain a slight electrostatic charge, causing pollen from the flower's anthers to stick to the bee, allowing for pollination when the bee moves on to another flower.Photo by John Severns (Wikipedia username Severnjc)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:European_honey_bee_extracts_nectar.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Severnjc---Blueberries being pollinated by bumblebees. Bumblebee hives need to be bought each year as the queens must hibernate (unlike honey bees). They are used nonetheless as they offer advantages with certain fruits as blueberries (such as the fact that they are active even at colder outdoor ambient temperature) A picture showing blueberry pollination by bumblebees, aswell as the system of furrow irrigation using siphon tubes. Pictures were taken at "blueberry fields", Koersel, Belgium.A picture showing blueberry pollination by bumblebees, as well as the system of furrow irrigation using siphon tubes. Pictures were taken in July 2008 at "blueberry fields", Koersel, Belgium.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlueberryPollinationByBumblebees.jpgPhoto by Kristof Van der Poorten Wikipedia username KVDPhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KVDPhttp://kvdp.blogspot.comhttp://healingweb.blogspot.comEnvironmental Health Science of Columbia University60 Haven Ave.Room 100New York, NY10032http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/ehs/index.html---Wikipedia on Cultivars & Hybrids:A cultivar is a particular variety of a plant species or hybrid that is being cultivated and/or is recognised as a cultivar under the ICNCP. The concept of cultivar is driven by pragmatism, and serves the practical needs of horticulture, agriculture, forestry, etc.The plant chosen as a cultivar may have been bred deliberately, selected from plants in cultivation, or discovered in the wild. Cultivars can be asexual clones or seed-raised. Clones are genetically identical and will appear so when grown under the same conditions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CultivarViola 'Clear Crystals Apricot', a hybrid cross viola (Viola x hybrida), Victoria, Australia. Wikipedia photo by John O'Neill (Wikipedia username Jjron)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jjronhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Jjron---Keweenaw Peninsula: Michigan's Copper Country:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michiganhttp://www.unr.edu/sb204/geology/westernh.html---West Virginia White Butterfly & killer Garlic Mustard Seed plants:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Whitehttp://www.cbgarden.org/blog/index.php/tag/west-virginia-white-butterflyhttp://leapbio.org/west_virginia_white.phphttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/3402_white_WV_ws.jpgWest Virginia White, Pieris virginiensis on wild mustard Photo by Randy L Emmitthttp://www.rlephoto.com/butterflies/white_wv01.htm---Butterflies/Moths:The Butterfly Site:http://www.thebutterflysite.comChildren's butterfly links:http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Links.htmButterfly Encounters:http://www.butterflyencounters.comButterflys and Moths of North America:http://www.butterfliesandmoths.orgOpler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators. 2006. Butterflies and Moths of North America. Bozeman, MT: NBII Mountain Prairie Information Node. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org---Deciduous forests:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous---Viceroys:Viceroy Butterfly mimics Monarchshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_butterflyhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Viceroy_Butterfly.jpgWikipedia Viceroy photo by Piccolo "Pic" Namekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PiccoloNamekViceroy:http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/viceroy.htmPhoto by William T. Hark---Butterfly & endangered species hibernacula:http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/lists/michigan-cty.htmlhttp://www.naturenorth.com/summer/bgarden/bttgrdF.htmlhttp://entweb.clemson.edu/museum/buttrfly/local/bfly12.htmhttp://actazool.nhmus.hu/48/konvicka.pdfhttp://earthcaretaker.com/naturalization/llamb.html---Mourning Cloaks aka Morning Cloaks:http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/MourningCloak_060319.htmhttp://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/insects/mourning-cloak.aspxhttp://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/mourningcloak.htmlhttp://www.naturenorth.com/spring/bug/mcloak/Fmcloak.html---Mason bees - bee houses in wood:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_beehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Osmia_rufa_couple_(aka).jpgPhoto of an Red Mason Bee couple (osmia rufa) by André Karwath of German Wikipedia also known as AKA (André Karwath):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AkaMason Bees:http://www.farminfo.org/bees/mason-bees.htmhttp://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/mason_beePhoto by Kim Taylor of Bruce Coleman Inc.http://www.masonbeehomes.com/bee_houses.phphttp://www.pollinator.com/mason_homes.htmhttp://www.insectpix.net/Homes_for_bees.htm---Brownfield sites:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownfieldshttp://ncrs.fs.fed.us/4902/focus/restoration/brownfield---Mass Mill - copper processing waste (stamp sands) cleanup:(search for KBIC in following document)http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/tribalgov/ImprovingPartnerships.pdfhttp://www.uprcd.org/projects.asphttp://www.upea.com/filesfordownloading/Baragadraft.pdf---Dave Anthony & Northern Michigan University Center for Native American studies:http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IEDSHighlights.shtmlhttp://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/AboutUs/AboutUs.shtmlManoomin Project:http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416108http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org/wildrice2007.htmlhttp://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,215966.%20shtmlhttp://blog.americanfeast.com/indigenous_foodhttp://www.goodnewsdaily.com/show_story.php?ID=3500Manoomin Project Videos:http://blip.tv/file/549632http://blip.tv/file/341528---Dreamcatcher:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(Native_American)http://www.dreamcatcher.com/home.php---Northern white cedar:http://forestry.about.com/library/tree/blntwh.htm---More on honeybee decline:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_declinehttp://www.masterbeekeeper.org/pdf/pollination.pdfThe Value of Honey Bees As Pollinators of U.S. Crops in 2000 by Drs. Roger Morse and Nicholas Calderone of Cornell University (2000) :Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in North America in late 2006.European beekeepers observed a similar phenomenon in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a lesser degree. Possible cases of CCD have also been reported in Taiwan since April 2007.

• Release Date

  Dec 31, 2008

• Runtime

  10:59