Across 2021-2023, the RCN is holding a series of collaborative workshops designed to bring the community of people monitoring native bees together to discuss key elements of a national monitoring strategy. These workshops feature a series of speakers with experience on focal topics, with time for group discussions inspired by the talks. The workshops will follow a path (outlined below) that leads with learning about other monitoring programs and developing clear conservation outcomes, followed by workshops that tackle additional components of a national strategy, including data management, sampling protocols, and establishing priority areas in the US for monitoring.

Previous workshops:

• Existing monitoring efforts
• Conservation needs: species risk and regulation
• Needs and priorities of federal agencies for large-scale native bee monitoring efforts

Future workshops will focus on:

• The role of Cooperative Extension for native bee monitoring - scheduled for Wednesday, April 13th, via Zoom
• Establishing priority areas for native bee monitoring
  
• Sampling methods
• Taxonomic bottleneck/bee identification
• Data management
• Public communication
• Policy and plan implementation