The 2025 WI Pollinator Protection Package (PPP), introduced and sponsored by Representative Lee Snodgrass (D – Appleton, WI) proposes efforts for improved pollinator habitat inputs and public outreach and education initiatives to include:
- Requiring state agencies and government entities to give preference to use native prairie and forage plants to benefit pollinators.
- Designating June 2025 as Pollinator Awareness Month in Wisconsin.
- Allowing a political subdivision to regulate pesticides for the purpose of protecting pollinators and pollinator habitats.
- Prohibiting people who sell plants from advertising or labeling the plants as good for pollinators if they are treated with certain insecticides.
- Establishing a “Protect Pollinators” license plate program, similar to other conservation-focused license plate programs.
- Prohibiting the DNR from using any insecticide from the neonicotinoid class near any pollinator habitat located on DNR-maintained land.
- Designating Rusty Patched Bumble Bee as the state native insect and requiring the Wisconsin Blue Book to include information concerning that designation.
Attached is a WHPA Statement of Support for the Pollinator Protection Package. WHPA members may contact their legislators to encourage them to co-sponsor and pass the Wisconsin Pollinator Protection Protection Package.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact WHPA’s Legislative Committee Chair Doug Koltermann (414-881-8284) or member Lisa Antle (414-467-4162).