Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings Overview

Habitat loss and degradation are among the greatest threats to wild bee populations. Since pollinators are a keystone species for agricultural and forested ecosystems, pollinator habitat restoration is critical to ecosystem health and stability worldwide. Log landings, open areas in forests where logs are processed and stacked before being loaded onto logging trucks, are challenged with soil compaction, erosion, residual mulch and logging debris, and invasive species.

The Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings (PHiLL) project was designed to investigate the establishment of ephemeral pollinator habitat across three National Forests in the Midwest: Hoosier (Indiana), Shawnee (Illinois), and Mark Twain (Missouri).