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*[http://www.metroblooms.org/bloomsblog/planting-for-pollinators-how-raingardens-can-help/ Metro Blooms]: Planting for Pollinators: How Raingardens Can Help | *[http://www.metroblooms.org/bloomsblog/planting-for-pollinators-how-raingardens-can-help/ Metro Blooms]: Planting for Pollinators: How Raingardens Can Help | ||
− | *[http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GreatLakesPlantList_web.pdf The Xerces Society for | + | *[http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GreatLakesPlantList_web.pdf The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation]: Pollinator plants - Great Lakes Region |
*[http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm Pollinator Partnership]: Ecoregional Planting Guides | *[http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm Pollinator Partnership]: Ecoregional Planting Guides | ||
*[http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service]: Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants | *[http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service]: Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants |
An increasing focus on Green Infrastructure has brought an awareness that stormwater management can provide numerous benefits beyond improving water quality and urban hydrology. Trees, for example, provide a multitude of benefits beyond stormwater management, as discussed in this article. In particular, vegetated stormwater best management practices (BMPs), including tree-based systems and other bioretention systems, offer opportunities to achieve multiple benefits, ranging from aesthetics (see, for example, this presentation by Dr. Steven Rodie from the University of Nebraska - Omaha) to ecosystem friendly designs.
Vegetated stormwater BMPs can be designed to be pollinator-friendly. It is clear that pollinators, both vertebrates and invertebrates, are in decline (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). This page provides numerous links to information that can be used in designing and implementing pollinator-friendly stormwater BMPs.
Although much of the information on these pages is general, many of the practices can be incorporated into vegetated stormwater BMPs.
North American Pollinator Protection Campaign: Pollinator Friendly Practices Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: A landowner’s guide to pollinator-friendly practices
The Xerces Society: Targeted for gerdeners, this site contains much useful general information on pollinators and managing for pollinators Pollinator Friendly Alliance