This week is National Pollinator Week. It is a time set aside to celebrate pollinators and to spread the word about what we can do to protect them. It was initiated and is managed by the Pollinator Partnership. … [Read more...]
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Things We can do for Pollinators
As we come to the end of this year's National Pollinator Week, I thought it would be a good time to summarize some of the things we can do to help pollinators. … [Read more...]
Rights-of-Way Connect Habitat
Reprinted below, with permission, is an e-mail from Iris Caldwell of the Rights-Of-Way as Habitat Working Group. For more about Pollinator Week go to Accent on Natural Landscaping post. In honor of National Pollinator Week, we worked with the artist Megan Murrell to create the above … [Read more...]
Warranted but Precluded
Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that the Endangered Species Act Listing for the monarch butterfly was "warranted, but precluded" by work on higher-priority listing actions. With this decision, the monarch becomes a candidate for listing, and its status will be … [Read more...]
Western Monarchs Closer to Extinction
Today is a sad day. Across 261 overwintering sites, volunteers counted only 1,914 monarch butterflies for the Western monarch population of California. How does this year compare to previous years? When the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count was started in 1997, over 1.2 million monarchs were … [Read more...]
Rights-of-Way as Habitat: Updates and Announcements
Iris Caldwell sent a number of announcements to share for the Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group. Read on: We are feeling right at home at our NEW WEBSITE! It contains all of the same great information as before but now presented more beautifully and on an easier-to-navigate platform. … [Read more...]