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For Earth Day 2023, let’s talk about sunflowers, bees, and roadways
On this week’s Talking Michigan Transportation podcast, a conversation about the success of efforts by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to attract pollinators with roadside sunflowers and other vegetation.
Amanda Novak, a resource specialist in MDOT’s Bay Region, talks about the origins and successes of MDOT’s pollinator program and how the experience of other state departments of transportation (DOT), including North Carolina, inspired the program.
Novak talks about MDOT’s efforts planting sunflowers, dubbed pollinator superheroes, along state highways.
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