Leopold Live: Introduction to Beekeeping
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 16: Introduction to Beekeeping. In this installment, we're joined by Bamaberger Ranch Manager, Steven Fulton, to discuss the basics of beekeeping and how you can use it to qualify your property for the 1-D-1 Open Space Tax Appraisal.
Leopold Live! began as a live streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we will be joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field.
Tune in here to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Episode resources:
Bees and agricultural tax valuation guide: https://texasbeekeepers.org/ag-valuat...
Agriculture and wildlife tax valuation processes in Texas: • Leopold Live: 1-D-1 Wildlife Tax Valuation...
Bee box designs: https://extensionentomology.tamu.edu/...
Bamberger Ranch Preserve events page: https://www.bambergerranch.org/worksh...
Catching wild bees: https://bee-health.extension.org/coll...
Protective equipment for beekeeping: https://extensionentomology.tamu.edu/...
Hive tools: https://bee-health.extension.org/hard...
Top bar hives: https://www.perfectbee.com/your-beehi...
Langstroth hives: https://www.perfectbee.com/your-beehi...
How bees make comb: https://schoolofbees.com/how-do-bees-...
Wax moth management: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication...
Mann Lake bee supplies: https://www.mannlakeltd.com/
Supplemental feed for bees: https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding...
Pollen patties: https://extension.usu.edu/beekeeping/...
Honeybee nutrition: https://bee-health.extension.org/hone...
Para moth pesticide: https://www.mannlakeltd.com/feeding-m...
Varroa mites and bee management: https://bee-health.extension.org/varr...
• Episode 4: Varroa Mites
Oxalic acid vaporization: https://carolinahoneybees.com/oxalic-...
Smokers for bees: https://learnbees.com/bee-smoker/
Queen color markings: https://www.piedmontbeekeepers.com/qu...
Queen introduction methods: https://bee-health.extension.org/hone...
Decapper: https://simpleharmonyfarms.com/uncapper