Protecting Pollinators: Benefits for Ecosystems & Food Security in Oregon

I am honored to be offering the closing remarks at this conference. Pollinator Project Rogue Valley is proving itself to be relentlessly optimistic and active in education the Rogue Valley on the dangers of pesticides. If you are in the area, come meet these epic peeps and their renowned guests. And if you come, please say hello!

Saturday, February 11, 8:30am - 4:30pm

What one thing can we do to improve the health of our pollinators and our ecosystems here in Southern Oregon? How can homeowners, property managers, landscapers, nurseries, and municipalities better protect our pollinators? What are neonicotinoids and how are they affecting our pollinators - and us? Please join us for this day of insight and education, and engage with experts from The Xerces Society, Center for Biological Diversity, Trout Unlimited, Pesticide Research Institute, and others to find out the answers to these questions - and more!

This forum combines science & policy for protecting pollinators to ensure their survival – and ours. Keynote presentations, panels, and workshops, will focus on solutions to the decline of native pollinators and the effects neonicotinoids are having on OUR landscapes and ecosystems.

Panel I: The Effects of Neonics on Ecosystems.

Panel II: Landscapes and Neonicotinoid Use.

Panel III: Neonics, Food, and Human Health: Safer Practices to Benefit Food Systems.

Panel IV: Alternatives to Synthetic Pesticides: Beneficial Insects and More.

Speaker's Spotlight

Pam Marsh: Oregon's State Representative, is a 21-year resident of Southern Oregon. Pam served on Ashland's City Council for four year, and as the Executive Director of the Ashland Emergency Food Bank before being elected as State Representative, taking office in 2017.

Aimee Code, Pesticide Program Coordinator at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, has more than seventeen years of experience working to protect people and the environment from pesticides.

Dr. Susan Kegley, CEO & Principle of Pesticide Research Institute, has extensive expertise in environmental, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, with an emphasis on pesticides and heavy metals, including their fate and transport in the environment.

Jack Williams, Senior Scientist at Trout Unlimited, has worked for the Endangered Species Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as a fisheries program manager for the BLM, science advisor to the director of BLM, and forest supervisor for the U.S. Forest Service.

Questions? Call Beyond Toxics office at 541-465-8860 or

Email the event manager at kabrams@beyondtoxics.org

We expect tickets to sell quickly, so register now to bee part of this unique opportunity.

Only $10, $15 at the door, with $5 discount for Master Gardeners.

Register online via Eventbrite or call Beyond Toxics at 541-465-8860. Lunch selections prepared by Fry Family Farm! Sponsored by Beyond Toxics, Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, and OSU Extension.

OSU Extension Auditorium

569 Hanley Rd, Central Point