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Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices. Topic S10-18. Considerations for Establishing and Maintaining Successful Bee Programs on Airports

项目名称：	Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Practices. Topic S10-18. Considerations for Establishing and Maintaining Successful Bee Programs on Airports
摘要：	Establishing successful bee programs at airports is a trend in airport sustainability, helping to expand land stewardship goals and community engagement. Hosting bees and beekeeping while considering local land conditions and practices can also benefit local, native bee species and other pollinators that face population declines. Enhancing and/or preserving the foraging landscape with local, native plants can provide more and better food for all bee species and other native pollinators that do not interfere with airfield uses. Preserving and reintroducing native plant landscaping, in addition to providing pollinator forage, may also minimize landscape maintenance and land hazards to aircraft and provide mitigation for airport safety and development projects. The objective of this synthesis is to compile current practices at airports with active beekeeping and pollinator conservation programs that could be a reference for airports that are considering beekeeping and pollinator conservation within their land management programs. The audience for this research is airport operators and sponsors responsible for airport land management and other uses that support the airport mission. The following tasks and resulting information will be described in a concise report: (1) Survey pertinent literature. (2) Interview data from a diverse range of airports (geography, airport hub size, NASA bee forage regions) responsible for beekeeping or contracts with beekeepers to document practices. (3) Information to collect should include (a) number of hives, (b) environmental conditions (c) relationship model with beekeeper (e.g., internally v. externally managed), (d) hive management, (e) operational issues being on airport property (e.g., access, security), (f) challenges/threats/opportunities, (g) funding (h) other issues (e.g., threats against the hive such as disease) (i) efforts to encourage native bees (j) beekeeping agreements, public solicitations, and other available information (k) liability (4) Develop 10 case examples from interviews of airports and/or beekeepers on airport grounds, describing experiences, benefits, challenges and lessons learned from small DIY to commercial operation of many hives as well as management of pollinator habitat. (5) Provide appendix materials that display any helpful documents/checklists found during data collection (e.g., beekeeping agreements, solicitations, forage lists for USDA bee forage regions, local/state/county extension beekeeping resources, etc.). (6) Describe any further research needed to fill gaps in knowledge.
状态：	Active
资金：	45000
资助组织：	Airport Cooperative Research Program<==>Federal Aviation Administration
项目负责人：	Greenberger, Marci A
执行机构：	Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Incorporated
开始时间：	20201001
主题领域：	Aviation；Environment；Terminals and Facilities