An interesting post from Kim's Catch the Buzz https://www.beeculture.com/catch-the-buzz-a-push-to-store-commercial-honey-bees-in-utahs-manti-la-sal-national-forest-could-threaten-its-native-bee-diversity/?utm_source=Catch+The+Buzz&utm_campaign=24608dc9e9-Catch_The_Buzz_4_29_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0272f190ab-24608dc9e9-256246405 The key word in the article is "store honey bees". They are applying to place 100 colonys each in 49 locations in the National Forest. Very few locations anywhere can support a hundred colonies productively. I believe this would be yet another feed lot for almond bees with nowhere else to go. To date, it has received permission to place 20 hives at just three sites each in the national forest. That is an appropriate stocking rate and I believe would not negatively impact the local populations. Paul Hosticka Dayton WA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
