{"content":[{"text":"RESOLUTION DECLARING THE TOWN OF LYME \n A POLLINATOR-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY","bbox":{"left":0.267473,"top":0.091195,"width":0.46466599999999997,"height":0.034052}},{"text":"WHEREAS, butterflies, birds, bees and other pollinators are a critical part of a healthy \n ecosystem and of essential importance to our food system, providing the propagation through \n pollination for 75 percent of the world’s flowering plants, including 35 percent of food crops, \n and,","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.143316,"width":0.732929,"height":0.06920399999999999}},{"text":"WHEREAS, pollinator populations are in sharp decline due to human land development and \n landscape practices that are causing ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation, flowerless lawns, \n and a lawn culture that requires excessive fertilizers, chemicals and high maintenance costs, and \n offers no benefit to bees and other wildlife, and,","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.230589,"width":0.754051,"height":0.06890000000000002}},{"text":"WHEREAS, the use of pesticides, herbicides and rodenticides is often not necessary in order to \n create and maintain healthy lawns, gardens or open spaces, given the availability of alternative \n practices and products, and,","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.317559,"width":0.7481610000000001,"height":0.051627000000000034}},{"text":"WHEREAS, integrated pest management, designed to manage pests by addressing the \n underlying sources of the pest problems and prioritizing techniques that are least toxic to humans \n and the environment, strengthens efforts to protect pollinators, and,","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.387256,"width":0.7623040000000001,"height":0.05162699999999998}},{"text":"WHEREAS, pollinators both depend on and benefit the native plants of Lyme which provide \n food and shelter for all wildlife, help prevent erosion, keep our waterways clean and improve the \n air that we breathe; and recent scientific research supports the benefits to pollinators of \n connecting isolated patches of pollinator-friendly habitat to form pathways and corridors, and,","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.456953,"width":0.7595320000000001,"height":0.06920299999999996}},{"text":"WHEREAS, the Town of Lyme can demonstrate its support for a pollinator-friendly community \n by creating, enhancing and/or maintaining pollinator habitats on land managed by the Town by \n encouraging the planting of pollinator-friendly native plants, and to abstain from chemical use on \n town properties whenever possible …","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.544226,"width":0.763394,"height":0.06889999999999996}},{"text":"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Lyme is hereby declared a \n Pollinator-Friendly Community by supporting a creation of a pollinator pathway through Lyme – \n hereafter referred to as the Lyme Pollinator Pathway (LPP) – as an initiative of the \n Lyme Sustainable Committee which was appointed by the Lyme Board of Selectmen. The LPP \n volunteer team includes representatives from the Town of Lyme and the following sponsor \n organizations: The Lyme Garden Club, Lyme Land Trust, Lyme Public Library and Friends of \n the Lyme Public Library, UConn Master Gardeners Program and Friends of the Whalebone \n Cove.","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.631195,"width":0.762398,"height":0.13890000000000002}},{"text":"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Town of Lyme will set an example for the community \n by adopting the pollinator-friendly practices listed below whenever possible:","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.788165,"width":0.743332,"height":0.03405199999999997}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.117451,"top":0.839767,"width":0.009019,"height":0.018561999999999967}},{"text":"Creating, restoring, maintaining and enhancing pollinator habitats that include native \n vegetation wherever feasible; and supporting residents’ efforts to create pollinator habitats \n that connect in order to make a step-by-step pathway for pollinators;","bbox":{"left":0.146863,"top":0.841498,"width":0.7088850000000001,"height":0.05162800000000001}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}