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To fight bee decline, Obama proposes more land to feed bees

The Obama administration hopes to save the bees by feeding them better.

A new federal plan aims to reverse America’s declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making millions of acres of federal land more bee-friendly, spending millions of dollars more on research and considering the use of fewer pesticides.

To fight bee decline, Obama proposes more land to feed bees

-Associated Press 5/19/2015

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