6/12/23 Meeting Agenda

6:30 pm Zoom

6:30 - 6:35

Gather and welcome new people.

6:35 - 7:15

Special Guest - Elmer Dengler, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired). Elmer has been studying monarch butterflies since he was a teen and is currently a member of the Bowie City Green Team, RePollinate AA County, Bowie-Crofton Garden Club NRCSSoil Conservation Service, and volunteer with the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. Elmer initiates and leads native habitat restoration projects and installations and engages many audiences on benefits and techniques of planting and managing pollinator habitat.

Elmer will speak about his twenty years of finding the best ways to introduce people to pollinator habitat management as opposed to just a garden of miscellaneous native cultivars that do not address habitat restoration, education, or sustainability in traditional parks and public areas.

7:15 - 7:30

Carpooling for Refuge Tour 6/17- Jess

• National Wildlife Visitor Center - 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop - front desk - 9:50

• Brad Knudsen is tour guide, provided phone number

• Point person and car pooling

L4P Summer plans - Jess

• June, July and August events, meetings, break

Riverfront Restoration - Brian and Dave

• Youth Conservation Corps, watering

Healthy Habitats - Jimmy

• Weeding, thinning, watering

Arts and Engagement - Cheryl

• Pollinator printmaking part 2 and Sturgis Moore mural

Litter Brigade - Holly

• Plastic bag ban

6/12 Meeting Minutes

No Secretary was present to take meeting minutes