{"id":2820,"date":"2017-03-06T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2017-02-27T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:37:28","slug":"iowa-city-is-devoting-1000-acres-to-saving-honeybees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/iowa-city-is-devoting-1000-acres-to-saving-honeybees\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa City is Devoting 1,000 Acres to Saving Honeybees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork.com writes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As honeybee populations\u00a0continue to dwindle in the United States, this small town in Iowa is starting a groundbreaking initiative to save the precious pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,000 Acre Pollinator Initiative in Cedar Rapids is\u00a0a campaign to populate 1,000 acres of the local area with wildflowers and prairie grasses essential to honeybee survival.<\/p>\n<p>County\u00a0park officials in collaboration with the Monarch Research Project hope that restoring the insect\u2019s natural habitat will help combat the damaging effects of pesticides and climate change on honeybee populations.<\/p>\n<p>The project will begin in the spring with the seeding\u00a0of 188 acres of unused public land, including\u00a0park corners, golf courses, sewage ditches, water retention basins, and roadway\u00a0medians. The seed mixture is a robust combination of 39 different native wildflower species and seven different prairie grasses. The initiative is projected to be completed over the course of five years.<\/p>\n<p>The state has already allocated over $180,000 for the start of the project, with more fundraising expected in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you convert it back to what was originally native Iowa, you\u2019re going to help a lot more than just native pollinators,\u201d Cedar Rapids Park Superintendent Daniel Gibbins told Popular Science. \u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re helping birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals\u2014everything that\u2019s native here relies on native vegetation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>About the Author<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\">McKinley Corbley:\u00a0Editor and writer for GNN; part-time circus junkie; and part-time English student in community college. Enjoys feminism, bad puns, travel, and copious amounts of stomach-ache inducing pasta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork.com writes:\u00a0 As honeybee populations\u00a0continue to dwindle in the United States, this small town in Iowa is starting a groundbreaking initiative to save the precious pollinators. The 1,000 Acre Pollinator Initiative in Cedar Rapids is\u00a0a campaign to populate 1,000 acres of the local area with wildflowers and prairie grasses essential to honeybee&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[570,571,572],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-honeybees","tag-iowa","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}