
OUR SUCCESSES
The People and Pollinators Action Network’s staff and leaders have made much progress over the years! Check out some of our recent successes and accomplishments below:

POLLINATOR HIGHWAY
2017-2021
Championed a state resolution designating I-76 as Colorado’s first pollinator highway (2017) and launched the pilot planting project in 2018. Our partnership with CDOT continues with new pollinator plantings along Hwy 119 (2021).

COLORADO POLLINATOR SUMMIT
2015-2022
Co-created and co-host the annual Colorado Pollinator Summit (2015-2022) with Denver Botanic Gardens and The Butterfly Pavilion; and co-lead the Colorado Pollinator Network

COLORADO POLLINATOR MONTH
2017-2022
Worked with Governors Hickenlooper and Polis to designate June as Colorado Pollinator Month (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

ORGANIC TURF
2019
Co-hosted, with Beyond Pesticides, two organic turf pilot projects in the City of Longmont to transition conventionally-managed parks to organic (2019)

POLLINATOR RESOLUTIONS
ONGOING
Helped to pass Pollinator Resolutions in 9 CO governments (City of Boulder, Boulder County, City of Lafayette, City of Longmont, City of Denver, Town of Berthoud, City of Cherry Hills Village, Larimer County, City of Loveland)

POLLINATOR POLICY
2018
Worked with the Department of Natural Resources to spearhead a new, comprehensive pollinator policy for state lands (2018)

REGULATION OF PESTICIDE USE
2020
Introduced Colorado’s first bill (SB20-189) to repeal state preemption of pesticide use—authorizing local governments to regulate pesticide use and application (2020)

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
(2015-present)
Create training opportunities for government and commercial pesticide applicators

CO PESTICIDE APPLICATOR'S ACT
2015
Successfully advocated for new rules for Colorado’s Pesticide Applicators’ Act, which governs the Pesticide Advisory Committee, to mandate the inclusion of beekeepers and organic farmers and to create requirements informing the public of actions taken against workers who violate pesticide application rules