Jim said: >What happened was that an
over-hyped tale of an exaggerated impact of CCD
on "the beekeeping industry" was leveraged to
justify conservation of native pollinators.

Again Jim, their agenda, the status report on pollinators, and national 
pollinator week were all in place BEFORE CCD!  They have apparently been 
putting forth the message for biodiversity for some time.  CCD just made 
their point.

> we certainly don't need anyone
"helping us" to turn our agenda into part of
a long-term multi-million-dollar program,
when we need some quick work to at least
triage this darned "CCD" thingy.As you have made abundantly clear, by both 
your statements, and your lack of replies to my questions, the NP folk had 
nothing to do with our lack of proposals for emergency funding.  We have 
only ourselves to blame for that.  I don't understand your obsession with 
the NP folk.  We beekeepers are competing with thousands of other 
agricultural interests for our place at the trough.  At least the NP agenda 
overlaps ours on many issues.  The multimillion dollar proposed programs are 
for long-term honeybee and pollinator issues, not just CCD.


>We have an agricultural issue to address.
Nothing more.I agree.  And it will be decided by the market, not 
politics.Jim, since you clearly have "issues" with the NP people, and just 
as clearly are not going to be swayed by either fact or reason, I'd like to 
move on.


>My coffe cup is empty, so I'm done typing, but
the next step is to get some focus on some
funding that can get feet on the ground THIS year.  Wonderful, maybe we can 
work together at this!  Yesterday I spoke with the Calif Almond board to get 
them to write a letter in support of emergency funding for CCD research. 
This morning I spoke with the Calif State Beekeepers to do the same. 
Tommorow I will be speaking to our State Farm Bureau.  I've written letters 
to both my senators, my representative (for the appropriate bills), and to 
Sec of Ag Johanns.  How are things going at your end?  Got enough 
coffee?Randy Oliver 

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