Plants for Pollinators in the Intermountain West (USDA-NRCS: technical note)
This NRCS Technical Note provides guidance for the design and implementation of conservation plantings to enhance habitat for pollinators. Plant species included in this document are adapted to the Intermountain West; encompassing southern Idaho, eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, and northern Utah.

Plants for Pollinators in the Inland Northwest (USDA-NRCS: technical note)
This NRCS Technical Note provides guidance for the design and implementation of conservation plantings to enhance habitat for pollinators. Plant species included in this document are adapted to the Inland Northwest; encompassing eastern Washington, northeastern Oregon and northern Idaho.

Gardening for Native Bees in Utah and Beyond (Utah State University: Extension fact sheet)
A guide to native and introduced garden plants appropriate to Utah and other Great Basin states. The guide includes color photos of various recommended plant species, and typical bees that might visit them.

Selecting Plants for Pollinators (Pollinator Partnership: fact sheet)
A basic regional guide to native plants visited by various pollinators.

Plants for Native Bees in North America (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
A general information guide to selecting common native and ornamental garden plants that attract native bees.

Improving Forage for Native Bee Crop Pollinators (USDA National Agroforestry Center: technical note)
An in-depth guide to enhancing floral resources for native bees, with an emphasis on the selection of bee-friendly trees and shrubs

Plants Attractive to Native Bees (USDA Agricultural Research Service: web site resource)
A list of widely distributed plant genera that both are commonly cultivated and broadly attractive to bees.

Gardening for Native Bees in North America (USDA Agricultural Research Service: web site resource)
An overview of how to choose plants for garden settings to encourage bees.

Attracting Native Pollinators. Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies (Xerces Society: book)
Now in its second printing, Attracting Native Pollinators reflects the latest understanding about conserving pollinator habitat. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs and dozens of specially created illustrations this book is divided into four sections: pollinators and pollination, taking action, bees of North America, and creating a pollinator-friendly landscape.

Pollinator Habitat Assessment Form and Guide (Xerces Society: conservation guidelines) This habitat assessment form and guide enables you to assess specific pollinator habitat features before and after project implementation in both orchard and field crop settings.

Pollinator Biology and Habitat (Colorado USDA-NRCS: technical note)
An in-depth guide to native bee ecology and conservation for natural areas and farms in Colorado.

Pollinator Habitat Evaluation Guide (Colorado USDA-NRCS: habitat assessment tool)
A ranking spreadsheet that calculates the relative value of individual farms and rural landscapes for native pollinators.

Farming for Bees (Xerces Society: conservation guidelines)
This booklet outlines ways to protect and enhance habitat for native crop pollinators in the farm landscape. It includes advice on simple changes that can be made in farm management for the benefit of native bees, as well as how to create important habitat features.

Organic Farming Practices: Reducing Harm to Pollinators (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
Guidelines that rank the impact of various farming practices to native bees.

Pollinators in Natural Areas (Xerces Society: conservation guidelines)
This primer provides a summary of how land and wildlife managers can account for the habitat needs of pollinators. This 8-page booklet provides a series of recommendations for land managers on how tools such as fire, grazing, mowing, herbicides, and insecticides can be adjusted to benefit pollinators.

Pollinator-Friendly Parks. How to Enhance Parks, Gardens, and other Greenspaces for Native Pollinator Insects (Xerces Society: conservation guidelines)
These guidelines offer practical advice about providing habitat for native bees and butterflies in all types of parks and greenspaces. It includes advice on choosing plants that offer nectar and pollen, hostplants for caterpillars, and creating nest sites for solitary bees-in all types of parks.

Making Room for Native Pollinators. How to Create Habitat for Pollinator Insects on Golf Courses (Xerces Society: conservation guidelines)
Published by the U.S. Golf Association in 2002. Maintaining pollinator populations is one of the most valuable ways in which a course can contribute to a healthy environment. These guidelines offer tips for providing habitat for native bees.

Using Farm Bill Programs for Pollinator Conservation (USDA-NRCS: technical note) These guidelines provide a concise summary of how Farm Bill conservation programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program or the Conservation Reserve Program, can be used to restore or enhance habitat for pollinators on working farms and private lands.

Sustaining Native Bee Habitat for Crop Pollination (USDA National Agroforestry Center: technical note) An overview of how to provide habitat for crop-pollinating native bees in agroforestry settings.

Ecological Pest Management Database (ATTRA: web resource)
An online database that helps users select reduced risk pesticides for the protection of beneficial insects.

Pollinator Conservation: Three Simple Steps to Help Bees and Butterflies (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
This fact sheet provides an overview on the importance of pollinators and outlines three simple steps that you can do to help conserve bees and butterflies.

Protecting Nature’s Essential Service: The Xerces Society’s Pollinator Conservation Program (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
A summary of the Xerces Society’s Pollinator Conservation Program and key accomplishments within the program.

Organic-Approved Pesticides: Minimizing Risks to Pollinators (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
Guidelines that rank the toxicity of common, organic-approved pesticides to native bees.

Pesticide Considerations for Native Bees in Agroforestry (USDA National Agroforestry Center: technical note)
An article highlighting how to reduce bee poisoning from pesticides.

How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides (Oregon State University: Extension fact sheet)
A publication listing common agricultural pesticides and their known effects on multiple bee species.

Ecological Pest Management Database (ATTRA: web resource)
An online database that helps users select reduced risk pesticides for the protection of beneficial insects.

Managing Alternative Pollinators: A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers, and Conservationists (SARE: handbook) A first of its kind, step-by-step, full color guide for rearing and managing bumblebees, mason bees, leafcutter bees, and other honey bee alternatives. Free download; 162 pages.

Nests for Native Bees (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
A resource to that describes techniques used to make nests for native bees.

Tunnel Nest Construction and Management (Xerces Society: fact sheet)
Guidelines on the construction and maintenance of nest sites for tunnel nesting native bees.

Build a Nesting Board (USDA Agriculture Research Center: web site resource)
Instructions on how to construct a drilled nest board for leafcutter and mason bees. Includes extensive color photos of the construction process.

Reed Nests (USDA Agriculture Research Center: web site resource)
Instructions on how to cut and assemble bundled reed nests using the common reed (Phragmites australis).

Stick Nests (USDA Agriculture Research Center: web site resource)
An illustrated guide to constructing stick nests and stake nests for wood nesting bees such as mason bees, leafcutter bees, and various carpenter bees.

Xerces Pollinator Conservation Seed Store
The Xerces Society’s online Pollinator Conservation Seed Store works with leading wildflower seed producers in each region of the United States to develop pre-mixed blends of some of the best pollen and nectar plants available. Local, source-identified seed that is not treated with pesticides is used wherever possible. Large volume mixes are available at wholesale pricing to help offset the costs of native plant restoration. Additional selection, packet sizes and butterfly host plants are being added on a regular basis.

Applewood Seed, Arvada, CO
Applewood provides bulk, wholesale wildflower and native grass seed, as well as Rocky Mountain regional and custom seed mixes.

Blackfoot Native Plants Nursery, Potomac, MT
Blackfoot Native Plants Nursery offers native grass, shrubs, and wildflower plants found in the prairies and dry montane forests of the Rocky Mountain West region.

Cedera Seed, Inc. , Swan Valley, ID
Cedera primarily offers grasses native to the Intermountain region.

Conservation Seeding and Restoration, Inc. , Kimberly, ID
Conservation Seeding and Restoration provides native plant material and seeds to the Rocky Mountain area, and provides ecotype information for all products.

Draggin Wing Farm, Boise, ID
Draggin Wing Farm offers a wide selection of native perennial plants for water-conserving landscapes such as Southern Idaho, N. Nevada, E. Oregon, and N. Utah.

Dry West Nursery, LLC, Hotchkiss, CO
Dry West Nursery grows and sells native and drought-tolerant trees, shrubs, perennials, and grasses for the Rocky Mountain and Interior West region.

Granite Seed, Lehi, UT
Granite Seed specializes in a diversity of local ecotype seed of grasses, forbs and shrubs native to the western USA.

Great Bear Restoration, Hamilton, MT
Great Bear provides native tree, shrub, wildflower and grass plant materials in a variety of sizes to the Western U. S.

Grow Wild Nursery, Salt Lake City, UT
Grow Wild Nursery offers native shrubs, wildflowers, grasses and trees for riparian to desert habitats in Utah.

Native Seed Foundation, Moyie Springs, ID
Native Seed Foundation specializes in seeds of woody shrubs, small trees, and ground covers native to the Intermountain and northwest.

Natives West Nursery and Landscaping, Kooskia, ID
Natives West Nursery provides trees, shrubs, grasses and wetland plants native to the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain Region.

Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI) Learning Nursery, Moscow, ID
The Nursery makes available, through retail and wholesale sales, locally sourced native trees and shrubs of various sizes.

Pawnee Buttes Seed, Inc. , Greeley, CO
Pawnee Buttes Seed, Inc. provides native and introduced grass, forb, and shrub seed, along with wildflower seed mixes for Colorado and the Rocky Mountain area.

Pleasant Avenue Nursery, Buena Vista, CO
Pleasant Avenue Nursery offers container plants that are indigenous to the central Colorado Rockies.

Rocky Mountain Native Plants Co. , Rifle, CO
Rocky Mountain Native Plants Co. has native plant materials of wetland and upland species of the Western United States.

Santa Ana Native Plant Nursery, Bernalillo, NM
Santa Ana Native Plant Nursery provides plants of flower, grass, tree, vine and shrub species native to the high desert and Southwest U. S.

Sierra Valley Farms, Beckwourth, CA
Sierra Valley Farms offers (retail and wholesale) native high elevation plants native to California and Nevada.

Southwest Montana Native Landscapes LLC, Glen, MT
Southwest Montana’s retail nursery has trees, shrubs, perennial wildflowers, and grasses in containers and seed for native grasses, for the Rocky Mountain area.

Stevenson Intermountain Seed, Inc. , Ephraim, UT
Stevenson provides grass, wildflower, shrub and tree seed of both native and introduced species.

Western Native Seed, Coaldale, CO
Western Native Seed specializes in native plant seed of wildflowers, trees and shrubs, grasses, wetland species, and regional seed mixes for the Rocky Mountain region and the western Great Plains.

Westscape Wholesale Nursery, Bozeman, MT
Westscape offers containerized plant material of native grasses, perennials and small shrubs native to S. W. Montana.

Wildland Nursery, Joseph, UT
Wildland Nursery provides trees, shrubs and wildflowers native to the Intermountain West.

Wind River Seed, Inc. , Manderson, WY
Wind River offers seeds of native plants, including grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, wetland and forest species, to the Great Plains and Intermountain region.

Western Bumble Bee Pocket Identification Guide (Xerces Society: field ID guide)
A full color print-and-fold guide to the Western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis), a formerly common species believed to be in decline. Includes images of similar looking species.

BugGuide (Iowa State University: web resource)
BugGuide is an online community of naturalists who share photographs of bugs from the United States and Canada for identification and research. Site visitors can submit their own photos for identification assistance.

Discover Life (American Museum of Natural History: web resource)
Discover Life hosts interactive species guides provide identification support for North American bees in the states and provinces east of the Mississippi River. Work is ongoing to add additional species guides for bees from the rest of North American and the world.

Great Sunflower Project (San Francisco State University: citizen science program)
The Great Sunflower Project is a citizen-science monitoring effort to gather information about urban, suburban and rural bee populations across the U.S. and Canada. Participants plant sunflowers in their garden, then submit the results of a once weekly 15 minute observation of bee activity. The website offers guides to common bee groups of North America.