Learn about local pollinators at Dec. 14 talk

Published 9:36 am Tuesday, December 6, 2016

ILWACO — Pollinators play an important role for a healthy ecosystem. On Dec. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Salt Hotel and Pub in Ilwaco, discover the steps to cultivating a pollinator-friendly yard and practice skills for making your environment friendly to bees with naturalist, writer and beekeeper Julie Tennis.

Tennis has kept bees since 2008 and is passionate about helping native bees in the local area. For Tennis, the route to appreciating native bees came through her work with domesticated honeybees. She strives to find balance between the types of bees, recognizing the importance that each population brings to our local ecosystem.

Tennis, business owner of BeeMentor.com and Bee Haven Apiaries, has multiple colonies from Astoria to Skamokawa. Topics of the evening will range from the background of native bees, describing differences in bee species living in the Long Beach area, and how human intervention can play an important role to help prosper the survival of these pollinators.

This is a Salty Talk presentation, located upstairs in the Salt Hotel, 147 Howerton Ave., on the Ilwaco waterfront. The event is free to the public. Come early or stay late to have dinner or a beverage.

Salty Talks are a partnership between the Salt, the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, with support from Friends of Columbia River Gateway, and the Port of Ilwaco.