MonarchLIVE
“The Forest Service Conservation Education and International Programs staffs, the Prince William Network, and multiple partners coordinate ‘MonarchLive—A Distance Learning Adventure.’ MonarchLIVE is an online repository of education and informational resources, webinars, and live broadcasts around the theme of monarch butterflies” (USFS 2015). The project uses distance-learning and hands-on activities to promote monarch conservation and […]
MonarchNet: Citizen Science Research Compilation and Data Visualization
“The mission of MonarchNet is to create a central website where everyone can gain access to information about monarch monitoring programs, learn how to access the data, and find tools for data visualization to learn about monarch dynamics throughout North America. This website serves as a resource for anyone who wants to know about monarch […]
Monarchs Across Georgia
“Monarchs Across Georgia (MAG) is a committee of the Environmental Education Alliance. MAG works together with teachers, students, families, communities, businesses and others to study monarchs and restore butterfly habitat across the state. Its mission is to inspire caretakers of the natural environment through monarch and pollinator education” (Monarchs Across Georgia 2016). Monarchs Across Georgia […]
Monarchs in the Classroom
The Monarch Lab is highly involved in education and outreach surrounding monarch butterflies and citizen science. The Monarchs in the Classroom program conducts various workshops for teachers, students and other groups, in both formal and informal educational settings. Monarchs in the Classroom outreach programs range from teaching educators how to utilize a tried-and-tested curriculum to […]
Monarchs in the west
Monarchs in the West (Monarcas en el Oeste) is a digital social network-based tool that fosters monarch butterfly monitoring in order to expand the record of its distribution and recognize the western region as one of its migratory paths. It also seeks to foster public awareness with respect to the species’ conservation and its main […]
Monitoring of Monarch Butterflies
A Procodes project was authorized to carry out monitoring of the monarch butterfly in the NPA. Two groups of people from the ejidos of Joyas del Durazno and Saus were organized. In total 19 people participated in the monitoring. These people were trained by the University of Querétaro and Correo Real to properly perform monitoring […]
Monitoring of monarch butterflies, restoration and conservation of habitat and water projects, fire prevention
The Ecology Institute of the State of Guanajuato (Instituto de Ecología del Estado de Guanajuato) monarch-monitoring website provides information about volunteers involved in monitoring activities in the state (Reporta Monarca 2014). In 2015, 674 volunteers from 128 villages in Guanajuato were trained in monarch monitoring. Most of the volunteers are from the municipalities Jarécuaro, Tarimoro […]
National Conservation Practice Standards
These resources provide information regarding BMPs supported by the USDA NRCS. The Monarch Butterfly Habitat Development Project report provides an overview of relevant incentive programs for a public audience. This summary of the project, which targets monarch habitat in the southern Great Plains (South Central) subregion and the Midwest subregion, describes general monarch and milkweed […]
National Network for monarch butterfly monitoring in Mexico
The National Monarch Butterfly Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Monitoreo de Mariposa Monarca) is an initiative coordinated by the National Commission for Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas—Conanp), involving the collaboration of different government institutions, academia and civil society to monitor the monarch butterfly in protected natural areas along their migratory path. […]
Native Prairie Tax Exemption Program
By participating in the Native Prairie Tax Exemption Program, Minnesota landowners may qualify for exemption from property taxes on land that is enrolled to preserve native prairie. The program is administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MnDNR) in partnership with county tax assessors. Lands eligible for inclusion in the Native Prairie Tax Exemption […]
Native Prairie, Wetland, and Wildlife Habitat Tax Exemption
The state of Iowa provides tax relief to landowners with qualifying lands under the Native Prairie, Wetland, and Wildlife Habitat Tax Exemption. Applications must be reviewed by biologists from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources prior to submission to the county tax assessor. Portions of the property exempted under this incentive may not be used […]
Native Seed Collection Programs Model Concept
Native seed collection is an important component of local habitat restoration. Having locally sourced, native seed is essential for monarch habitat restoration and conservation, providing locally adapted nectar and host plant resources for monarchs. Volunteers, in partnership with a local agency, native plant nursery or larger program, can participate in such initiatives. For example, Boulder […]
NaturaLista
A virtual platform conceived to enter, view and identify fauna and flora records from Mexico and around the world, Naturalista is a space where people can add and share observations on biodiversity and consult with professionals and specialists regarding taxonomy issues. This platform was created in collaboration with the National Commission for the Knowledge and […]
Nebraska Pheasants Forever Habitat Tips
The Nebraska Chapter of Pheasants Forever has created a weekly video series of wildlife habitat tips, which includes many topics on planting milkweed and nectar plants for monarch and pollinator habitat restoration. Pheasants require insects as a key component of their diet, especially as chicks, and also use prairie grassland and forb habitat for nesting. […]
Nebraska State Parks Restoration of Pollinator Habitat
Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail is a heavily used recreational trail that stretches across a large portion of northern Nebraska. “The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and partners will restore 140 acres [56 hectares] of low quality grasslands adjacent to the Cowboy Trail to high quality monarch habitat. The project will collaborate with multiple monarch conservation groups […]
North American Butterfly Association Adult Counts
“The North American Butterfly Association has run the Butterfly Count Program in the United States, Canada, and Mexico since 1993. Each of the approximately 450 counts consists of a compilation of all butterflies observed at sites within a 15-mile diameter count circle in a one-day period. The annually published reports provide a tremendous amount of […]
North American Monarch Institute
“The Monarch Flyway Network is a partnership between the US Forest Service International Programs and the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab. It brings together teachers, non-formal science educators, and scientists to study monarchs and build lasting collaborations along the monarchs’ migration flyway route to Mexico. A key goal of the Monarch Flyway Network is to […]
Parks for Monarchs
The nation’s parks—large or small—all have an important role to play in monarch conservation. The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) recognizes this and is heeding the call to save the monarch butterfly. Since 2014, the NRPA has been working extensively to encourage park and recreation organizations to engage in monarch conservation. National parks have […]
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
The USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program is a voluntary agreement with private landowners, providing technical assistance and direct financial payments to conserve and restore lands for federal trust species, which includes species of international concern. Agreements must be for a minimum of 10 years. Projects may be implemented on agricultural or other […]
Payment for Environmental Services (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, PAS)
Payments for Environmental Services (PSA) is a program administered by the National Forestry Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal—Conafor) and supported by partners such as Conanp, which funds multiple kinds of projects, including those that provide biodiversity benefits in natural protected areas (Conanp 2014). In Baja California, the Valle de los Cirios APFF receives financial support through […]
Phytosanitary Strategy for Agriculture 2011–2021
The Phytosanitary Strategy for Agriculture 2011–2021 was designed to reduce by 25% the risks to health and the environment from the use of pesticides in the agricultural sector in Quebec. It presents actions identified by government and industrial partners to reach targets during the period from 2011 to 2021. It also aims to increase the […]
PLANTS Pollinators
This USDA NRCS online resource hub, PLANTS database, to date provides 181 resources related to pollinator guidance documents. These materials include technical documents and media, such as plant lists, technical notes, habitat assessment guides, habitat installation guides, webinars and fact sheets, with national-, regional- and state-specific recommendations. Although not monarch-specific, resources include information on milkweeds […]
PLT15 – Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat
PLT15–Establish Pollinator and/or Beneficial Insect Habitat refers to an eligible enhancement activity under CSP. This activity and the supplement together include planting or seeding milkweed and nectar-producing plants in non-cropped areas of croplands, pastures, rangelands and forests. At least 0.2 hectares (0.5 acres) of every 16.19 hectares (40 acres) must be habitat (or where land […]
Point Pelee National Park Monarch Interpretive programming and Citizen Science
From late August into September, Point Pelee offers visitors a live monarch exhibit, complete with monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants, and interpretive panels. After emerging from the chrysalis, monarchs that are reared in the exhibit are tagged and released, usually as a demonstration for visitors. The intent is to encourage visitors to make their own […]
Pollinator Best Management Practices for Roadsides and Other Rights-Of-Way
This guidelines brochure provides a description of voluntary BMPs for management and creation of pollinator habitat in roadsides or ROWs. These practices are intended for Department of Transportation (DOT) staff, as well as other ROW managers, which may include agricultural landowners. Recommendations are general in nature and cover invasive/pest species management; habitat identification, preservation, or […]
Pollinator Conservation Program
The Xerces Society’s Pollinator Conservation Program established a formal partnership with the USDA NRCS in 2008 to expand on tits existing pollinator conservation efforts. The Pollinator Conservation Program offers technical support for habitat restoration and land management for pollinators, works directly with farmers, land managers and others to create pollinator habitat, delivers workshops and trainings […]
Pollinator Film Series
Tree Media Foundation is creating a call to action campaign of celebrity films to encourage restoration of natural areas for pollinators and monarchs and to teach future generations to garden and participate in citizen science. The films have the goal of raising awareness about the issues facing pollinators and one film will focus solely on […]
Pollinator Habitat
West Virginia’s Conservation Agency (WVCA), in partnership with the state’s Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), provides cost-share assistance to install habitat for pollinators, for agricultural landowners in West Virginia’s Guyan District. Under the WVCA’s Agricultural Enhancement Program, agricultural landowners or lessees can receive financial incentives through the Pollinator Habitat program to enhance or establish […]
Pollinator Habitat Assessment Form and Guide, Natural Areas and Rangelands
This report introduces private lands BMP guidance for pollinator habitat in rangelands and natural areas, directed toward conservation planners and private landowners. The report is developed as an assessment tool indicating relative value of existing habitat attributes and management practices. The assessment is intended to be completed first during the planning process and again after […]
Pollinator Habitat Installation Guides
This report is one of multiple guides addressing pollinator habitat installation available through the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation’s (Xerces’) Pollinator Resource Center online resource hub; others are authored by Xerces staff and staff from the USDA NRCS and address regionally specific BMPs. Regional guides currently include those for California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New England, […]
Pollinator Research in National Parks
The National Park Service has conducted several pollinator and butterfly surveys and inventories in national parks across the country. The studies include: a bee survey in Denali National Park; a butterfly inventory and a hummingbird survey in Rocky Mountain National Park; a bee monitoring program in the Boston harbor area; and a study of the […]
Pollinator Resource Center
This online resource hub provides a number of resources for the general public, including links and content related to the protection of pollinating insects and their habitat. Available resources include regional and national pollinator plant lists, pollinator conservation and habitat installation guides, and pesticide guides. A list of native pollinator plant nurseries and seed companies […]
Pollinator Week
Pollinator Week is the product of Pollinator Partnership and began in June 2007, with the first declared Pollinator Week. “Eight years ago the US Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as [‘National Pollinator Week’] marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now […]
Pollinators and Roadsides: Best Management Practices for Managers and Decision Makers
This report for United States roadside or ROW managers, such as state Department of Transportation (DOT) staff, provides descriptive and prescriptive steps to incorporating pollinator habitat beneficial practices into existing ROW management. The document covers practices related to existing habitat identification for preservation or restoration, existing habitat preservation or restoration, mowing or haying, fire, grazing, […]
Prairie on Farms
“There is increasing interest in planting prairie on farms, for soil and water conservation as well as wildlife habitat and personal enjoyment. The Tallgrass Prairie Center is embarking on a new project to share [its] knowledge of prairie reconstruction and management techniques with rural landowners and technical service providers. In particular, the new technique of […]
Prairie Restoration
Technical guides recently developed by the Tallgrass Prairie Center review a number of BMPs related to tallgrass prairie habitat, including those that address habitat identification, preservation, or restoration; planting or seeding; forb propagation; mowing or haying; thinning; prescribed burning; grazing; invasive/pest species management; soil disturbance; and irrigation. These publications support multiple initiatives, including monarch, pollinator […]
Project Milkweed
This online resource hub provides a number of resources related to milkweeds, the required host plant for monarch butterflies. According to the website, “[t]he loss of milkweed plants in the monarch’s spring and summer breeding areas across the United States is believed to be a significant factor contributing to the reduced number of monarchs recorded […]
Project Milkweed
“The loss of milkweed plants in the monarch’s spring and summer breeding areas across the United States is believed to be a significant factor contributing to the reduced number of monarchs recorded in overwintering sites in California and Mexico. Agricultural intensification, development of rural lands, and the use of mowing and herbicides to control roadside […]
Project Monarch Health
“Monarch Health is a citizen science project working to track the prevalence of the protozoan parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) in monarch butterflies. This parasite does not infect humans but can make butterflies sick. Monarchs infected with OE may be too weak to emerge properly from their chrysalides and can die at this stage. In other […]
Project Wings
Two Rivers Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc., administers Project WINGS, a partnership program with electric and gas utilities, the Georgia Forestry Commission and the USDA NRCS. The program provides direct financial payments to private landowners to protect or enhance wildlife habitat in ROWs. Landowners may be eligible for annual payments of US$50 per 0.4 […]
Promoting Citizen Science Monitoring of Monarchs and Milkweed in Texas
“Data from Texas are of great value for understanding eastern monarch population trends. Monarch reproductive performance in Texas is thought to play a significant role in determining the size and success of the eastern monarch population through the rest of the season. In the fall, monarchs migrating to Mexico all funnel through Texas, where they […]
Propagating Milkweed for Monarch Butterflies and Other Pollinators Field Course
Make Way for Monarchs offered a bilingual habitat certification course in nursery management and milkweed propagation for monarch recovery, with the University of Arizona Global Initiatives continuing education program. The course involved monarch and plant propagation experts from many partner organizations and invited participation from both US and Mexican federal agencies, as well as non-profits, […]
Quebec Pesticide Strategy 2015–2018
The Quebec Pesticide Strategy 2015–2018 contains guidelines and objectives for government action in the coming years. This strategy gives Quebec a framework for encouraging best practices when pesticides are used. The objectives of the strategy are aimed at protecting public health, pollinators and the environment and its approach centers on highest-risk pesticides, through client-based action […]
Region 3 National Wildlife Refuge System Pollinator Guidance for Grassland Management Activities
This report introduces prescriptive National Wildlife Refuge lands BMP guidance for pollinator conservation, directed toward field station land managers. Recommendations are outlined for a range of management practices, including mowing or haying, grazing, prescribed burning, invasive plant removal, pesticide application, and agricultural production. Land managers are instructed to identify specific pollinators that are present and […]
Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
The USDA NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) is a program providing direct financial payments and technical assistance to agricultural landowners in partnership with other organizations. Three categories of projects are funded, targeting critical conservation areas (35% of funding), national or multistate projects (40%) and single state projects (25%). NRCS programs, including ACEP, EQIP and […]
Reinvest in Minnesota Reserve Program
The Minnesota Board of Water & Soil Resources has identified a number of state and federal programs that may provide pollinator habitat as an additional benefit to funded projects. One of these, the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve Program, comprises permanent conservation easements. Easements may include enhancements of existing habitat or planting of diverse mixes […]
Reporta Monarca: Participative Monitoring of Monarch Butterflies
Reporta Monarca is a participatory monitoring program through which monarch butterfly sightings are reported. These reports are used to identify and define the monarch’s migratory route. Students of all academic levels, members of civil society, interested individuals and local government offices all participate in this program. The aim of this monitoring is to obtain information […]
Restoring Habitat for Monarch Butterflies on Public and Private Lands in Texas
“Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists will enhance or restore 14,910 acres [6,033 hectares] of habitat for monarch butterflies within the monarch’s migratory flight path through Texas. Restoration will occur on 160 acres [65 hectares] of public land on five wildlife management areas and 14,750 acres [5,969 hectares] of private land through a partnership […]
Rhode Island Pollinators and Agriculture
This report provides reference information on native Rhode Island bees and non-bee pollinators, as well as their basic habitat requirements for foraging and reproducing. It is written for agricultural landowners and discusses BMPs related to habitat identification, preservation, or restoration; planting or seeding; invasive/pest species management; mowing or haying; and grazing. It touches on some […]
Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group
The Energy Resources Center (ERC) at the University of Illinois, Chicago has been an active participant in high-level monarch conservation working groups like the Monarch Conservation Science Partnership and the Keystone Monarch Collaborative (ERC 2016). ERC is delving further into monarch conservation with the development of the Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group, which is currently […]