{"id":21823,"date":"2018-05-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=21823"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:03:44","slug":"fort-frederick-hosts-pollinator-planting-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/05\/25\/fort-frederick-hosts-pollinator-planting-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frederick Hosts Pollinator Planting June 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Help Sought in Effort to Bring Monarch Butterflies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4627\/25710063597_d3398c4954.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of monarch butterfly\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to help <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/fortfrederick.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Frederick State Park<\/a> and the Monarch Alliance place 500 plants in the park\u2019s new pollinator habitat June 2.\u00a0Registration starts at 8:30 a.m, with planting beginning at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 500 native plants provided by the alliance will allow the park to create a way station for a wide variety of pollinators,\u201d said Maryland Park Ranger Jeremiah Corbin.<\/p>\n<p>The five-acre pollinator habitat is located at the park&#8217;s visitors center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis area will provide great habitat for monarchs, other butterflies and pollinators in general,&#8221;\u00a0Monarch Alliance Co-Director Sandy Sagalkin said. &#8220;Monarch butterflies have been in serious decline nationwide and the national monarch strategy is to plant milkweed and native nectar varieties along their full migration pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Individuals and groups are welcome to volunteer. Anyone helping should bring their own gloves and gardening tools.\u00a0Refreshments will be provided by the Monarch Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested can call 301-842-2155, text 443-805- 1759 or email <a href=\"mailto:Ellen.Kinzer@maryland.gov\">Ellen.Kinzer@maryland.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help Sought in Effort to Bring Monarch Butterflies The public is invited to help Fort Frederick State Park and the Monarch Alliance place 500 plants in the park\u2019s new pollinator habitat June 2.\u00a0Registration starts at 8:30 a.m, with planting beginning at 9 a.m. \u201cThe 500 native plants provided by the alliance will allow the park<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/05\/25\/fort-frederick-hosts-pollinator-planting-may-20\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[4444,3007,4310,3636],"class_list":["post-21823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parks","category-wildlife","tag-ellen-kinzer","tag-fort-frederick-state-park","tag-jeremiah-corbin","tag-pollinators"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22030,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions\/22030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}