Partnerships for Monarch
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2017 SWCS Annual Conference July 30-August 2, 2017 Monona Terrace Convention Center
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Partnerships for Monarch
- 1. The Nation’s Leading Voice for Private Land Conservation
- 3. Distribution of Monarchs USA
- 7. Monarchs Depend on Milkweed
- 9. Intensification to Row Crops Source UW 2008-12
- 11. Opportunities within electric transmission ROWs
- 12. ? • Decline has been from loss of habitat in the USA • Recovery needs to focus on first and second generation breeding – Texas & Oklahoma – Corn Belt • We need 600 Million + additional stems of milkweed distributed in breeding area • The only way to reach this scale is to work with mainstream agriculture to provide habitat What is Required to Recover Monarchs
- 13. What Is Required For Sufficient Reproduction to Recover? Pollinator Patches • Small distributed patches of milkweed and nectar plants • Easy for farmers to establish • Outside of production lands • Scale up to landscape level
- 15. Alex Echols • echols@conrod.com • Sandcountyfoundation.org
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- Orange butterfly – hardly the camouflage we expect for delicate creatures Orange because they are poison to most predators Only lay eggs on milkweed
- Numbers declined by > 90% Truly AWESOME – a phrase I reserve for powers like God or the ocean 3000 mile plus annual migration for an insect 50% of those returning to Mexico come from corn belt
- Source: University of Wisconsin: Cropland expansion outpaces agricultural and biofuel policies in the United States Tyler J Lark1, J Meghan Salmon1 and Holly K Gibbs1,2 Nationwide, over 7.3 million acres of land — mostly grasslands — were converted to crop production 2008-2012, with clear “hotspots” of change located across the U.S.
- There are over 10 million acres in private ROW in the core area – gas, electric, railroad