Thursday, April 11th
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Speaker: Mia Monroe and Ole Schell
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Topic:
Where have all the monarchs gone?  Recent population trends and data on the Monarch Butterfly will be shared, as well as the good habitat work going on throughout Marin, especially Ole Schell’s West Marin Monarch Sanctuary.  Tips for how you can help will be offered, and a few controversies will be discussed, such as the role of eucalyptus and the dangers of tropical milkweed.  Local photographers will be featured, and the work of the Marin Monarch Working Group will be a focus.

Speaker Bio:
Mia Monroe is a Xerces Society volunteer, organizer of the Western Monarch Count over 25 years ago and is active in monarch butterfly conservation in California.

Ole Schell is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and farmer, who grew up in Bolinas on his father’s Niman/Schell Ranch, where the annual arrival of thousands of Western Monarch butterflies was a dependable autumn phenomenon, and where he has established a Western Monarch Butterfly sanctuary on his family land.

Photo by:Olga Rodriguez