2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward Video

Working alongside members of several Ojibwa tribes, at-risk teens with the US Forest Service-sponsored Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will continue protecting pollinators during 2010 by helping to build the first-ever native species plants greenhouse on an American Indian reservation and hope to trace the Mexico Monarch migration. During the summers 2008-2009, some 23 at-risk teens from Marquette, MI planted/distributed over 26000 native plants seeds, helped transplant hundreds of native plant seedlings, hiked through remote forests with Zaagkii Project Native American college interns to learn importance and uses for native species plants, and have built and painted 36 mason bee houses and 18 butterfly houses with one of each placed by the USFS in The Peoples Garden at US Department of Agriculture Headquarters, National Mall, Washington, DC. The Zaagkii Project is sponsored by the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC), the United States Forest Service (USFS) and Marquette County Juvenile Court. The at-risk teens put in 1786 hours of community service working on the Zaagkii Project. In 2010, the youths will help the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the USFS build a native plants greenhouse near the shores of Lake Superior, the first time such a greenhouse has been built on tribal property in the US KBIC "is happy to be partnering with the Cedar Tree Institute and the US Forest Service in trying to protect ...