91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Bee Campus USA Certification Renewed
SPOKANE, Wash. — 91³Ô¹ÏÍø University has been recertified by Bee City USA as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA Program. 91³Ô¹ÏÍø became a Bee Campus USA designee in 2017 — the first educational institution in the state to do so.
91³Ô¹ÏÍø supports two apiaries on the east patio, second floor of the Hemmingson Center, one at Bozarth Mansion Retreat Center in north Spokane, and is introducing two more on the roof of the Humanities Building later this spring.
“The apiaries provide awareness of the plight of the honey bee and how important they are to agriculture,” says Chuck Faulkinberry, director of 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s auxiliary services who serves as chair of the Bee Campus Committee here. “Over the last couple of decades the number of honey bees continue to decline. Our small attempt to educate provides the opportunity for the community to look at our world and understand what small changes we can make to be good stewards of the Earth’s resources.”
91³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty and students use the apiaries to study living communities. They have contributed to creating pollinator habitat with native plants, as well, and campus groundkeepers tend to the pollinator-friendly plants.
Dan Harris, a retired Sodexo food service manager, is 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s certified beekeeper. He maintains the hives, leads a fall honey harvest event, and coordinates a bee package installation in mid-April.
Bee City USA is an initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the largest pollinator protection organization in the world. The Bee Campus USA certification program galvanizes campuses and communities to sustain pollinators by providing them with healthy habitat, rich in a variety of native plants and free to nearly free of pesticides. Imperiled pollinators like wild bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, bats, hummingbirds and others are responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90 percent of the world's wild flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we consume, says Phyllis Stiles, pollinator champion at Bee City USA.
To learn more visit or contact Phyllis Stiles at (503) 395-5367. To learn more about 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s efforts to protect and sustain pollinators, contact Chuck Faulkinberry at (509) 313-6940.
91³Ô¹ÏÍø supports two apiaries on the east patio, second floor of the Hemmingson Center, one at Bozarth Mansion Retreat Center in north Spokane, and is introducing two more on the roof of the Humanities Building later this spring.
“The apiaries provide awareness of the plight of the honey bee and how important they are to agriculture,” says Chuck Faulkinberry, director of 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s auxiliary services who serves as chair of the Bee Campus Committee here. “Over the last couple of decades the number of honey bees continue to decline. Our small attempt to educate provides the opportunity for the community to look at our world and understand what small changes we can make to be good stewards of the Earth’s resources.”
91³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty and students use the apiaries to study living communities. They have contributed to creating pollinator habitat with native plants, as well, and campus groundkeepers tend to the pollinator-friendly plants.
Dan Harris, a retired Sodexo food service manager, is 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s certified beekeeper. He maintains the hives, leads a fall honey harvest event, and coordinates a bee package installation in mid-April.
Bee City USA is an initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the largest pollinator protection organization in the world. The Bee Campus USA certification program galvanizes campuses and communities to sustain pollinators by providing them with healthy habitat, rich in a variety of native plants and free to nearly free of pesticides. Imperiled pollinators like wild bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, bats, hummingbirds and others are responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90 percent of the world's wild flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we consume, says Phyllis Stiles, pollinator champion at Bee City USA.
To learn more visit or contact Phyllis Stiles at (503) 395-5367. To learn more about 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s efforts to protect and sustain pollinators, contact Chuck Faulkinberry at (509) 313-6940.