This year, Natural Bridges, Lighthouse Field and Moran Lake saw the largest clusters of monarchs in the state. But the big cluster locally belies a dismaying trend – monarchs are decreasing across the state. Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, unpacks the trend, discusses new proposals designed to protect monarchs and offers tips on what residents can do in their own backyards. Note: Planting milkweed is not always advised.
