MONARCH WATCH ANNOUNCES BRING BACK THE MONARCHS

[Chuck Vaughn]

I saw a Monarch at Upper Cathedral Lake (El. 9500') in Yosemite on September 28 of this year. I didn't know Monarchs went that high.

Chuck



> The track record of the monarch extinction scientists is abysmal:
> 
> Most recent example: just 7-8 months ago these scientists were
> making public statements that made it sound like the end of the
> eastern USA monarch migration was imminent:
> 
> http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/where-have-all-the-monarch-butterflies-gone/19406875
> 
> "A couple of years ago I would have said it was unlikely that
> we'd lose it [the monarch]," Andy Davis said. "But this year
> paints a dire picture."
> 
> http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/chipa.jpg
> "Status of the Population - it is not for the weak of heart"
> 
> "The reports from Mexico are keeping me up at night."
> 
> "my thinking now is that it will take monarchs at least two,
> and perhaps more years to recover"
> 
> "all of us are going to have to work especially hard to keep this
> migration going."
> 
> But then by late August massive numbers of migrant monarchs
> were observed in the Roundup Ready GMO crop growing areas
> of Minnesota:
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750130
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750241
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750303
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750334
> 
> And by mid-September, a blizzard of monarchs was seen along
> Atlantic coast beaches:
> http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/capemay.jpg
> 
> Paul Cherubini
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> 
>   For subscription and related information about LEPS-L visit:
> 
>   http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl 
> 
> 
> 



 
 ------------------------------------------------------------ 

   For subscription and related information about LEPS-L visit:

   http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl