Brower replies- The most recent ranting about monarch butterfly conservation

[Charles Bordelon]

So all the hoop-lah is about what???  Geez, you guys had me worried.  NOT.
PC, does your mother know where you are?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Cherubini" <monarch at saber.net>
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Brower replies- The most recent ranting about monarch butterfly
conservation


> Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote:
>
> > You cannot say the Monarch will
> > be a successful species with regard to the Mexico migration until it has
> > passed its test, which in this case will be adapting to the human
> > destruction of the habitat it is now using or may use in lieu of its
> > current overwintering habitat. This may take many years to be realized.
> > Stan
>
> Each year, 60-70% of all the monarchs overwintering in Mexico use
> these two habitats:
> http://www.saber.net/~monarch/chincuadis.JPG
> http://www.saber.net/~monarch/elrosariodis.jpg
> Do you see any substantial and worrisome forest "destruction" or
> "degradation" in the photos?  I don't.
> The other mountains in Mexico where the other 30-40% of monarchs
> overwinter look the same except on the Chivati-Huacal mountain
> and Cerro San Andres mountains where forest fires burnt part of
> the forest http://www.saber.net/~monarch/hchivati.JPG
>
> It takes only 30-40 years for the forest to regenerate and return
> to its former stature in this region of Mexico which gets 50-70
> inches of rain a year (the area looks like the forests of Oregon).
>
> Paul Cherubini
>
>
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