The Denver Federal Center in Lakewood is one of 11 sites across the country where the government is using its property to promote pollinator health
LAKEWOOD — LAKEWOOD, Colo. — In an unassuming box in an unassuming field on government-owned land, a colony of bees is busy at work.
Best Bees is the most extensive research beekeeping service in the country. It contracts with federal facilities to perform upkeep on the hives and study their progression. “Anybody who eats food or breathes air needs bees,” said Wilson-Rich. “Bees promote plants that take in carbon through photosynthesis. So that's how we have oxygen to breathe and yet bees are dying at a crazy alarming rate.”
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