Agenda (revised September 11, 2006 - subject to change)

8:00-10:00 AM
Welcome and Proclamation
Hon. Mike Johanns, Secretary US Dept. of Agriculture
General Pollinator Education
Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D., Co-author "The Forgotten Pollinators"
NAS NRC Status of Pollinators: Monitoring and Prevention of their Decline in
North America
May Berenbaum, Ph.D., Chair NAS NRC Pollinator Panel

10:00-10:20 COFFEE BREAK

International Initiatives
Michael Ruggiero, Ph.D., Director, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), USGS
Bee Importation-NAPPC White Paper on Bombus Terrestris
Gabriella Chavarria Ph.D., Defenders of Wildlife
The Pollinator Partnership™
Laurie Davies Adams, Executive Director, CoE and NAPPC
USPS Pollination Stamp
Hon. Yvenne Patrice Moore, 40 th Postmaster of Washington, DC

12:00-1:00 BREAK for LUNCH

Public Land Management
Marshall P. Jones, Jr., Deputy Director, US Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service
Agricultural Outreach
David White, Montana State Conservationist, USDA-NRCS
Bill Wilson, President, National Association of Conservation Districts
Private Land Management
Robert Johnson, President, Wildlife Habitat Council
Public Education Efforts
Christine Flanagan, Ph.D., Public Programs Manager, US Botanic Garden

2:40-2:50 BREAK

Panel: Answers Questions/Next Steps/Final Words
Peter Kevan, Ph.D., University of Guelph
Gordon Frankie, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Mawdsley, Ph.D., National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Coro Arizmendi, Ph.D., Laboratorio de Ecologia-UBIPRO
Moderator: Paul Growald, Chair, NAPPC and Coevolution Institute