Article on the Fate of the Monarch in 20 Years

[coloradeo]

I know we've all read about the Monarch. Saw this article on an unlikely site (ArsTechnica) and thought I'd pass it along. Here's the link.

Although this article discusses possible longer term outcomes, it appears to fly in the face of the population gains measured this year. Here's an earlier article about this year (link).

Eric

[Adam Cotton]

The monarch will probably outlive humanity.

Adam.

[wingedwishes]

On the same website is this article:

www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2015/1231/To-save-a-rare-forest-farmers-try-a-new-crop-butterflies

Made me happy....

[papilio28570]

All the articles I've read link the Monarch to cropland milkweed which is now destroyed by herbicide spray. This causes me to wonder what the native population was prior to Europeans populating North America. Most of the eastern seaboard was a vast uninterrupted forest as far west as the Mississippi River and beyond. Native Indians did not farm 300 million+ acres of harvested cropland