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    No Mow May strives to help bees, butterflies

    An initiative to aid bees and other pollinators by not mowing has caught on this spring in at least two Maine communities, Rockland and Portland. Photo by David Dahl. Spreading like dandelion fluff, a “No Mow May” initiative to aid bees and other pollinators is using seed in Maine.  It began when two Rockland residents despatched Town Councilor Nathan Davis a New York Situations photo essay about how this motion had swept Wisconsin in recent many years. “This is something the folks of Rockland could get driving,” he recalled pondering, and he was appropriate. The council supported the take care of unanimously, and Rockland grew to become Maine’s 1st “No Mow…

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