“Western Monarchs: A Holistic View of Recent History, Ecology, Resilience and Adaptation to a Changing Climate” with David James. A video of this meeting is available at: https://youtu.be/uoGBi80JHnw This will be a slightly reworked version of the keynote presentation I…
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Speaker update:Pelham’s computer went ker-plooie! So David is here to refresh our skills in identifying blue butterflies in Washington State. They’re beautiful, they’re diverse, they’re everywhere, and they’re fascinating! Don’t get distracted by those big, showy swallowtails! Beauty also comes…
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“Current Status of the Endangered Island Marble Butterfly” with Sarah Hanson and Walt Andrews Video of this meeting is available at: https://youtu.be/-uieD4eU4wg Join Sarah Hanson, Executive Director of On Sacred Ground, to learn about the history of Island Marble Butterfly…
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Butterflies (and other pollinators) of the Mountain Loop Highway: How a Project on the National Forest Evolved Video of this meeting is available at: https://youtu.be/joc2EMrcgEc In this tag-team presentation, David Droppers, along with Phyllis Reed, North Zone Wildlife Biologist with…
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This morning the Seattle Times published a long story by Nicholas Turner about the Island Marble which lives on San Juan Island. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/will-this-rare-butterfly-only-found-on-san-juan-island-go-extinct/ This butterfly, found only on a WA island, risks extinction!Island marble butterflies went unseen for nearly a…
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