Ep. 63: Creating Quail Habitat and Saving Monarch Butterflies

Quail Forever is part of a collaborative called Missourians for Monarch which is focused on creating pollinator habitat for a wide range of wildlife species. Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Kelly Srigley-Werner, U.S. Fish & Wildlife private land coordinator in Missouri; Donnamarie Duffin, Missourians for Monarchs coordinator, and Kim Cole, Quail Forever education & outreach program coordinator to talk about the habitat connections and conservation efforts linking bobwhite quail and monarch butterflies. Episode highlights include: · The monarch butterfly’s fascinating life cycle spanning a multi-generational migration from Canada across the United States to Mexico. · The importance of Missouri as the geographic center of the monarch’s migration. · The 45-member Missourians for Monarchs partnership work to improve almost 400,000 acres for monarchs, and in turn quail, in just five years. · How drones are being developed to count the critically important milkweed stem-by-stem to ensure healthy monarch populatons. · And speed-dating for conservation . . .