Prior to 1992, the Marin county coastal towns of Muir Beach, Stinson Beach and Bolinas were consistently home to 10,000 - 80,000 monarchs every year, including...
Paul: thanks for this overview and insight...thoughts on your larger questions and observations later (am in the midst of Muir Woods Centennial celebrations)...
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Dear Paul Cherubini: Thank you for sharing your report of recently covering more Monarch overwintering sites than I knew even EVER existed in Marin County.,(...
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Oct 6, 2008 9:50 pm
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Hello all, I just want to engage in a little shameless self-promotion, if I may. ... about monarchs at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in November...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the western_monarchs group. File : /pg...
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Oct 7, 2008 7:31 pm
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Hi everyone, your friendly neighborhood moderator here. I have altered the attachment settings on the Western Monarch group, which means that members can send...
On Oct. 4 the following article appeared in the Chronicle about a release of 500 monarch butterflies to celebrate the grand opening of Calif. Academy of...
Paul, I think I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you here. I don't think we can definitively say that these releases have had no effect. I will...
... Jessica, might depend on what you mean by "effect"? If a few of the 500 monarchs released at Golden Gate Park on Sept. 27 were seen the Fort Baker or...
thanks, Don and Paul for making sure the wider monarch community gets in on the news and to Jessica for adding a well-considered note... as always when reading...
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Oct 10, 2008 7:23 pm
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... Jessica, exactly 17 years ago (Oct. 9, 1991) I conducted a tagging experiment that inadvertently demonstrated "each site gets only a few more monarchs."...
Some thoughts about the release of monarchs at the opening of the new California Academy of Sciences facility on the 27th of September. I've been too busy to...
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Oct 11, 2008 5:25 pm
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Hi, Chip Taylor, Thanks for taking time to jump into the melee and to express your personal opinion about what and where and HOW FAR, etc. People really...
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Oct 12, 2008 7:34 pm
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My name is Dale McClung and I am a commercial butterfly breeder and a member of the International Butterfly Breeders Association (IBBA). I was interviewed by...
Hi. Dale McClung: I am so pleased that you remembered me from your IBBA meeting at ASILOMAR several years ago!!!! I remember 3 particular growers who really...
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Oct 14, 2008 12:29 am
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Hi all, Helen and I have been communicating in the background by phone and email. Our IBBA conference this year is in Costa Rica, 11/3 through 11/12, but...
http://tinyurl.com/4e62ut A dwindling monarch population will visit P.G. this year. By Kera Abraham Thousands of Halloween-colored butterflies will alight in ...
Hi, all: Wanted to share with you the program for the IBBA (International Butterfly Breeders Association) convention in San Jose, Costa Rica, Non. 7 - 12,...
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Oct 16, 2008 4:44 pm
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Hi, Don: Thanks for latest news report from Anne Macpherson and I hope that will encourage other Monarch people to report the current news for their...
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Oct 19, 2008 6:59 pm
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Greetings,  We are in our late October lull right now in Arizona. We have a period between when the Marsh Sunflower (Bidens laevis) stops blooming and the...
Thanks for checking in, Chris: I just moved to Pacific Grove from Salinas, and I"m about a mile from the 2 major Monarch sites in Pacific Grove,and the one...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 21, 2008 2:01 am
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From my "bud" Leslie Gilson from Huntington Beach commenting on her recent trip to Costa Rica. Helen Johnson ... From: "Leslie Gilson"...
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Oct 21, 2008 8:27 pm
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Jessica: This is the lady that I referred to you for monitering and tagging information. And now we have a Swalloweail resource!!! Helen ... From:...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 23, 2008 6:20 pm
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Hi folks, and Jacqui,( who will be my companion after I meet her in San Francisco after her flight from New Zealand to join me for the trip.) Wanted to share...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 26, 2008 11:29 pm
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Hi, all: My "Bud", Leslie Gilson, is back from Costa Rica, and she"s recruiting for more VOLUNTEERS at Norma Gibbs Park, in Huntington Beach, California. She...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 27, 2008 5:25 pm
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Monday 10/27/08 Thanx, Jacqui, for sending me your New Zealand TV interview about YOUR Monarchs, and the article you sent me about more misinformed people...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 27, 2008 8:20 pm
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Hi, Jan: Glad you read your E-Mail, and how great that Chip's vine still survives at Coyote Hills Regional Park. Any contributions of it's seed would Helen...
hjohnson1952
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Oct 28, 2008 5:51 pm
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Sounds IMPRESSIVE to me, but I can handle it. ... From: Renee Cooke To: hjohnson1952 Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Costa Rica Hi Helen-...
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Oct 28, 2008 5:51 pm
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... Actually, during the past 38 years there have been periods when the summer rainfall in Calif. and Nevada was below normal and the summer mean temperatures...
Hi, Chip Taylor: Thanks for your remarks about California, and you certainly addressed all THREE sides to some of our controversies, Your input on OUR Monarch...