The southwestern US is a haven for pollinators. From moist river-side areas, to the Texas coast and marshes, to the semitropical borderlands with Mexico, to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts, on into the grasslands, and among mountain ranges and valleys, the landscape diversity provides a wide array of homes to insect pollinators, as well as birds and bats.
On the morning of June 25th, a YCC crew joined Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle, and Regional Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System, Aaron Archibeque, to plant a pollinator garden in front of the Federal Building in Downtown Albuquerque! This new garden, consisting of all native species, will soon host a variety of pollinators – often unnoticed creatures that are vitally important to our everyday lives.
