{"id":226527,"date":"2021-05-27T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=226527"},"modified":"2021-05-27T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:22:26","slug":"pollinator-to-bring-new-learning-opportunity-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=226527","title":{"rendered":"Pollinator to bring new learning opportunity to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-226530\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo-350x175.jpg 350w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pollinator-photo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown High School, along with \u00a0James Valley Career and Tech Center, and Pheasants Forever are partnering to\u00a0 bring a new learning opportunity to area students.<\/p>\n<p>Other entities assisting with the project include the North Dakota Outdoor Heritage Fund, Stutsman Soil Conservation District, and Farmers Union Agronomy.<\/p>\n<p>To be called,\u201cBlue Jay Acres\u201d,\u00a0 it will be a pollinator conservation, focusing on efforts to help with pollination services. This includes birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and bees both native and commercial.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Precision Ag and Conservation Specialist with Pheasants Forever, Austin Lange says they would build the pollinator mix and demo plot located on just under two acres of land.<\/p>\n<p>He says, the idea is to educate the students on the role of flowering plants and pollinators in the ecosystem, to demonstrate what some of these plants look like, as well as provide benefits to wildlife, soil health, and other environmental benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the project will be maintained by the students with assistance from each entity. Lange says the educational opportunity will also come with some leisure activity beneficial to the area.<\/p>\n<p>He also hopes it will be a good place for the public to enjoy birds and other wildlife, as well as have educational opportunities and more, a place that can be used in the future for hikers, bird watchers, and for education and an outdoor classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown High School, along with \u00a0James Valley Career and Tech Center, and Pheasants Forever are partnering to\u00a0 bring a new learning opportunity to area students. Other entities assisting with the project include the North Dakota Outdoor Heritage Fund, Stutsman Soil Conservation District, and Farmers Union Agronomy. To be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226533,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226527\/revisions\/226533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}