To the List & beyond,

If you are reading this post most likely you have a computer with Internet 
access and are reading this post as a subscriber to BEE-L. There are a lot 
of other honeybee related Internet discussion groups out there and Jerry 
Bromenshenk has requested that readers from many different lists help the 
Colony Collapse Disorder effort by going to http://www.beesurvey.com and 
completing the Survey. But there are a lot of beekeepers who have 
computers at home and for various reasons do not go on-line. Some 
beekeepers that do go on-line do not know about or belong to or 
participate in an Internet beekeeping related discussion group or 
information distribution service. Surveys have been done in the past by 
some of the beekeeping magazines with findings that the majority of 
beekeepers, commercial, sideliner and hobbyist alike, do not have 
computers at home or they have to go to a library or other location to get 
online. As a consequence the open survey that Jerry Bromenshenk is 
conducting is somewhat limited to “computerized”participants. Although the 
American Bee Journal in it’s March 2007 issue gives mailing directions for 
those folks who wish to participate and obtain a survey there are other 
beekeeping magazines that did not have this information and frankly there 
are a many-many more beekeepers that do not subscribe to any beekeeping 
periodical or have computers. So I ask of you to please help Jerry’s CCD 
Group’s efforts by taking the contact information below to your state and 
local beekeeping meetings, classes, neighbors, etc. and get the word out. 
Get other beekeepers involved! Jerry needs a broad statistical database 
and the only way to get this is for as many beekeepers possible to respond 
to the Survey. Here is the contact information as of February second 
pending any amendment by Bee Alert Technology, Inc.:

Bee Alert Technology, Inc. 
Attention: Larry Tarver
1620 Rodger St Suite #1
Missoula, MT 59802

Your help in obtaining responses to this survey will help yourself and our 
industry.

Cheers,

Chuck

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