<Your name>
<Your return address>
<Your city, state and zip>

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

<date>

Dear President Bush,

	In 1994, Roger Morse of Cornell University stated, “feral honey bees are, for all practical purposes, gone.”1 Affected farmers now depend heavily on beekeepers with mobile colonies to pollinate their crops.  However, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is decimating these managed colony numbers.  
The House and Senate have put effort into enacting legislation into the new Farm Bill to help the honey bees2,3.  This new language grants research funding towards identifying causes of the Honey Bee decline and directs funding from the Farm Bill Conservation Programs towards improving pollinator habitats.
	Please observe the importance of pollinators and beekeepers to agriculture and approve pollinator protection and beekeeper assistance in the new Farm Bill.  
.						Sincerely, 

								    <Your name>

1 Watanabe, Myrna E, 1994.  “Pollination Worries Rise as Honey Bees Decline.”  Science 265 n.5176. 
2 U.S. House of Representatives, 2007.  Farm Bill Pollinator Highlights.  Retrieved on March 29, 2008 from http://www.pollinator.org/Resources/HOUSE-PASSED%20FARM%20BILL%20POLLINATOR%20HIGHLIGHTS%20v2.pdf.
3 U.S. Senate, 2007.  Senate Passed Farm Bill.  Retrieved on March 29, 2008 from http://www.pollinator.org/Resources/Farm%20Bill%20as%20Passed%20by%20Senate,%20Pollinator%20References%20v2.pdf.