SustainableMonarch

Nature based solutions that work for people & the environment.

[SustainableMonarch @SustainableMon3]

Economic incentives are needed to advance butterfly conservation. When people get paid for milkweed pods or otherwise are able to stack values, habitat support expands.

https://t.co/frSw6rkfGS #SustainableMonarch

[SustainableMonarch @SustainableMon3]

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[Dustin Demmer @DustinDemmer]

Our Cardinal Flowers are ridiculously good plants this year—transplanting plugs into 3” pots today. Going to bloom like crazy in summer, hummingbirds will be happy. https://t.co/Nc68aiFVdq

[Kelsey E. Fisher, Ph.D. @Kelsey_E_Fisher]

"Seedy" photo of the monarch team planting prairie seed mix on Tuesday. The dad jokes are prevalent with this group -- we have a good team!
@IowaMonarchs

[SustainableMonarch @SustainableMon3]

Have you seen our #milkweed #science kit? It’s a fantastic demonstration of the properties of the #plant that are useful to our lives! #SustainableMonarch

https://t.co/NZ0dPHLV2W

[e-Butterfly @eButterfly_org]

Congratulations to our great Dr @riva_ecology on this great paper!

[Kelsey E. Fisher, Ph.D. @Kelsey_E_Fisher]

Spent the morning spreading prairie seed mix over the building footprint of my first PhD office.

[Missouri Prairie @MO_Prairie]

MPF Master Class this Wednesday with Dr. Mike Stambaugh "Fire History Along the Central U.S. Prairie-Forest Border Region"
Learn more and register here: https://t.co/9sYWUQ1EcE

[MonarchJointVenture @MonarchsJV]

MJV Partner, @NWF is currently accepting pledges for the 2022 Mayors’ Monarch Pledge™ until March 31. Learn how your community can support #monarch butterfly and #pollinator conservation at https://t.co/CEw9giXmlN Is your town on the list? https://t.co/KDbQqxbC9Y

[SustainableMonarch @SustainableMon3]

Plant a #butterflygarden this year!

https://t.co/vzMYdP70Nf

[Farmers for Monarchs @Farms4Monarchs]

Find out how prairie strips can be a win/win—more profitable for you to farm, better for pollinators. Tim Youngquist of @prairiestrips @IowaStateU explains: https://t.co/NeBNlmW7v0

[Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Service @NebraskaNRCS]

Dismissed by many as flyover country, #grasslands are the most threatened and least protected biome in the world. Research by Rheinhardt Scholtz and Dirac Twidwell, both @UNLincoln, detail and rank the world’s remaining most intact grasslands. https://t.co/vijEc6g91W

[Kansas Farmer @farmer_kansas]

The Browning family is working hand-in-hand with the USDA to help preserve #Kansas grasslands for generations to come. Learn more about the exciting new Kansas Great Plains Grassland Initiative here!

#grasslands #greatplains https://t.co/ojh13EkeoQ

[Sask PCAP @SaskPCAP]

What’s under the surface counts!

Native prairie and rangeland soils are home to micro-organisms such as earthworms, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, arthropods, protozoa and more.

#nativeprairie #grasslands #PGTGW #saskatchewan #rangeninja #egs week

[Pepperwood @PepperwoodCA]

We focus on restoring #native #grasslands because human development, industrial agriculture, the loss of native wildflowers & perennial grasses, and the encroachment of woody species (trees, shrubs) have made native grasslands one of the most endangered ecosystems in the state.

[Cary Hamel @caryhamel]

Stony Mountain Prairie Preserve featured in @NCC_CNC magazine! This small prairie gem on the edge of town is part of an extensive community trail network. #Grasslands #Manitoba #UrbanNature https://t.co/0ZangU2hAI

[SustainableMonarch @SustainableMon3]

@DebbieHere2 Help us keep butterflies flying! https://t.co/frSw6rkfGS

[Andrei Sourakov @AndreiMoth]

Back from leading another successful @FloridaMuseum trip to the overwintering sites of #Monarchs. Butterflies were in good numbers in both colonies visited in the beautiful mountains of Michoacán in Mexico.

[Andrei Sourakov @AndreiMoth]

We had 29 people on the trip - a record number since my first trip of this kind in 2005. Local communities (and thus Monarch habitat preservation) depend on ecotourism, which only begins to recover from covid-related decline.

[Andrei Sourakov @AndreiMoth]

Cool fact: monarch's departure for Mexico in the fall has shifted by 2 weeks in the last 29 years. But most still are able to arrive more or less on time. Can you do that?
Want to learn more, here are some useful links:
https://t.co/sR8qO21pkn
and
https://t.co/fQgIi1SJwS

[MonarchJointVenture @MonarchsJV]

The Spring 2022 application for @monarchwatch milkweed plugs is open. Large (2+acre) restoration projects are eligible, & in CA, 1+ acre projects might qualify. Application required, learn more: https://t.co/jaAkfUGGs7 #monarchs #pollinators