Rick Simek, Environmental Interpretive Center program manager, and three volunteers spread the seeds of native Canada Anemone—which they first collected from the native gardens in front of the Environmental Interpretive Center—onto bare patches of soil where invasive plants had recently been removed. Canada Anemone flowers are known to support a diversity of native bees and other pollinators by providing a rich source of spring pollen for these insects to gather and feed to their larvae. Simek (pictured at right) said the efforts were part of the Center's Stewardship Saturday program, in which volunteers help to "re-stitch" a higher level of ecological health and function into areas that had been degraded by an overabudance of invasive plants.
