elegant photograph

[Michael Gochfeld]

Lovely Monarch photo against the Shasta backdrop.  What is the Milkweed
species. The florets have longer petals than our Common Milkweed. I
noticed this when I was in Oregon last week.  MIKE GOCHFELD

Paul Cherubini wrote:

> Last winter monarch overwintering populations along the California
> coast were way below normal.  By mid June, however,
> monarchs were a common sight at milkweed patches
> around the western USA.  How the monarchs recover so
> rapidly is not well understood.
>
> Most of the western monarch summer breeding habitat
> is man made.  For example, in the Mount Shasta area
> of extreme northern California milkweed plants have
> invaded patches of forest that were that were clear cut
> several decades ago.  In this way, human activity inadvertently
> creates new breeding opportunities for monarchs.  Here
> are two photos I took on July 11, 2002 of
> milkweed in the Mount Shasta area growing on clear cut
> forest land:
>
> http://www.saber.net/~monarch/shastaper.jpg
> http://www.saber.net/~monarch/stewspg3.jpg
>
> A couple years ago monarch biologist Dr. Karen
> Oberhauser asked kind of jokingly: "Is logging
> ever good for monarchs ?   Well its no joke that logging
> has been good in some circumstances for western monarchs.
>
> Paul Cherubini
> Placerville, Calif.
>
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