U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Service Projects for the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Florida Piedmont Partners for Monarchs are Service is partnering St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge has distributing milkweed to various partners built a greenhouse with college volunteers to be planted in existing fields, power and is propagating local milkweed for lines, and edges. with the Rosalynn Carter planting in schoolyard habitats. They also plan to create 10-15 new schoolyard The Asheville Ecological Services Office Butterfly Trail to restore habitats to create a coastal monarch trail. is collaborating with Monarch Watch to create monarch habitat on 20 school, important habitat for the Georgia business, and public community sites The Georgia Ecological Services Office with educational signage. They will monarch butterfly. Together is working with the Environmental also be propagating milkweed plants Education Alliance and National Wildlife for the sites and training teachers and Federation to conduct monarch habitat volunteers for student projects including they will add 100 sites along restoration on 13 public sites and 10 Eco monarch tagging. Toe River Watershed Schools. They also are partnering with Partnership is also an important the monarch’s migration Monarchs Across Georgia to conduct a contributor in these efforts. monarch workshop for teachers in Plains, routes in the Southeast. Georgia, the home of the Rosalynn Carter Tennessee Butterfly Trail. The Tennessee Ecological Services Office has developed cooperative agreements The Georgia Ecological Services with Cumberland and Morgan County Office is working with the Atlanta Soil Conservation Districts and with Botanical Garden to create a monarch Clinch Powell Resources Conservation demonstration site at Panola Mountain and Development Council to propagate State Park and expand monarch habitat milkweed and plant pollinator gardens to at Blue Heron Nature Preserve. They provide monarch habitat, education, and will also partner with Trees Atlanta, outreach on 16 school sites. So far this Georgia Department of Natural year, over 1,400 students have planted Resources, Coastal Ecoscapes and 25,000 milkweed plugs at 10 schools in Greening Youth Foundation to propagate Morgan and Cumberland Counties. local milkweed and create monarch habitat in Atlanta and on the Georgia To join the trail go to www.jimmycarter. coast. Emory University; Monarchs, info/Carterbutterflytrail.htm. Milkweed and More, LLC; and Georgia Gwinnett College will be conducting For More Information monarch monitoring. Debbie Harris Fish and Wildlife Biologist North Carolina U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Raleigh Ecological Services Office 706/613 9493 is collaborating with many partners [email protected] including North Carolina Land Trust, Central Park North Carolina, North Sergio Pierluissi Carolina Coastal Federation, The Nature Partners for Fish and Wildlife Conservancy, and Epiphany School of Coordinator, Southeast Region Global Studies to create and enhance U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service monarch and other pollinator habitat, all 404/679 7138 with an educational component for school [email protected] groups and the public. They are working with the North Carolina Botanical www.fws.gov/savethemonarch/ Garden to propagate native milkweed plants to create monarch habitat across June 2015 Monarch butterfly, credit Annette Wise North Carolina.