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Native Bee Fauna of the Columbia Mountains, Public Talk

Native Bee Fauna of the Columbia Mountains, Public Talk

June 18, 2019. Revelstoke BC
7pm, Revelstoke Community Centre, McPherson Rm 

Free Entry

Brought to us by the North Columbia Institute of Applied Ecology

“Lincoln Best will introduce the native bee fauna of the Columbia Mountains and discuss their relation to regional flora, interesting species, and how we can enhance habitat to preserve them.  All are welcome to this free talk, part of our CRED Talk series.

Lincoln Best is the lead taxonomist for the Oregon Bee Project and Atlas at Oregon State University, Corvallis in partnership with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. He instructs the Oregon Bee School, a course in taxonomy, and many other short courses and field courses. He spends his winters at University of Calgary where he is the pollinator taxonomist for the Ecologics Lab, generating biodiversity data for Landscape Ecology projects. Lincoln provides support to a large network of diverse clients in Canada and abroad. “