<div dir="ltr">The program last night on the PBS News Hour indicates the estimated hectare size of the Mexico overwintering population is the smallest yet measured. Lincoln Brower's projection seems to be coming true: the migration phenomenon seems to be declining steadily. Check this info at PBS.com and search in the PBS News hour for 24 Dec. piece. Sadly, neither Lincoln nor Chip Taylor were included in the coverage, which mainly featured folks at Texas A&M. No problem with that. Photos of containers of Roundup were included in the story. Merry Christmas. Cheers, Charlie</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Roger Kuhlman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkuhlman@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rkuhlman@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">How is the overall migrating Monarch population doing this year? I think the Monarch season(breeding and migrating) in southeast Michigan (Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee, and Monroe counties) was the worst year I can remember since I began intensively surveying butterflies back in 1997.<br>
<br>What do other people in the East and Midwest think?<br> <br>Roger Kuhlman<br>Ann Arbor, Michigan<br>12/25/2013 <br> <br><div>><br>> Subject: Re: [Leps-l] Unpublicized Monarch Overwintering Sites<div><div class="h5">
<br>> <br>> Secrete????? Not really. This small and only occasionally occupied <br>> location has been known for a long time. Due to it's remoteness and <br>> the fact that it is small and often not occupied, it is seldom <br>
> visited.<br>> No one has claimed that the number of monarchs at this site are <br>> anything but a small proportion of the total population.<br>> <br>> Gail Morris passed along the following write up on this location - <br>
> dating from 2002.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.tierramerica.net/2002/0120/iarticulo.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.tierramerica.net/2002/0120/iarticulo.shtml</a><br>> <br>> >Paul,<br>> ><br>
> >What a tremendous service you have rendered to the Monarch by subtly <br>> >revealing 'secret' overwintering sites.<br>> ><br>> >Pelham<br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>
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