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Pollinators are necessary to our very existence. More than 85 percent of the earth’s plants rely on pollinators to exist! Unfortunately, pollinator populations have been declining across the globe due to habitat fragmentation and loss, pesticide use, invasive non-native plants, and climate change. We can make a difference by creating a PolliNation Pollinator Pathway!

Even though pollinators are tiny, they are designed to cross-polinate genetic diversity in plants over a large area. Creating a “pollinator pathway” or “green belt” offers these important species a safe space to journey and maintain the diverse genome pool necessary to continue longterm successful pollination.

How do we do it? We create a pollinator pathway by building a network of residential and city-built rain gardens, thereby connecting homes and buildings into a habitat corridor that simultaneously sustains our community’s pollinator populations AND reduces impact from flooding and drought conditions!

* Interactive Map & more coming soon…!

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Create a series of rain gardens to build a pollinator pathway through Mill Valley that integrates fire-resistant and drought tolerant native plants. Highlighting natural stream courses, we could simultaneously sink over one million gallons of stormwater runoff during rain season and maintain non-irrigated fire-resistant landscaping during droughts!

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Interactive mapping of each garden so community members can watch the pathway come to life and appreciate their collective contributions.

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Combine efforts with local agencies and government to help implement shared goals toward land and water conservation iniatives.