| 1. THREATS PREVENTION, CONTROL AND MITIGATION |
| B. Flyway |
| THREAT |
ACTION |
Threat: Habitat loss and degradation in monarch flyway
Objective: Address the threats of habitat loss and degradation in the flyway |
- Identify habitat types and locations that are essential for the migration (roosting sites and nectaring habitats).
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| C. Breeding areas |
Threat: Habitat loss and degradation in monarch breeding areas
Objective: Address the threats of the loss, fragmentation, and modification of breeding habitat |
- Determine if, when and where milkweed is a limiting resource and develop plans to plant regionally appropriate species.
- Strengthen monarch butterfly habitat protection on public and private land.
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Threat: Habitat management practice
Objective: Limit impact of habitat management practices on monarchs, flowering plants and milkweed |
- Develop recommendations to encourage consideration of milkweed as a beneficial plant, not a noxious weed.
- Control dog-strangling vine and other invasive plants that directly affect monarchs or milkweed.
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| 3. RESEARCH, MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING |
| OBJECTIVE |
ACTION |
| Monitor monarch population distribution, abundance, and habitat quality, and utilize the monitoring data to understand monarch population drivers |
- Distribute monitoring toolkit, and coordinate data collection.
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| Determine socioeconomic factors that influence the distribution and abundance of monarch butterflies |
- Identify socioeconomic factors that can be targeted for monarch mitigation actions.
- Identify costs and benefits, and feasibility (stakeholder acceptance) of mitigation actions for monarch conservation.
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| Evaluate and assess the effects of conservation actions on monarch distribution and abundance |
- Maintain a record of conservation actions.
- Collect and analyze existing data and use them to determine whether mitigation actions have been successful.
- Develop adaptive management procedures to encourage factors that result in positive changes and discourage those that result in negative changes.
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| 4. EDUCATION, OUTREACH, AND CAPACITY BUILDING |
| OBJECTIVE |
ACTION |
| Expand communication and information-sharing that support monarch conservation |
- Develop, distribute and assess educational toolkit (including sensitivity to habitat values and management) to teachers, trainers, consumers.
- Use electronic and print media for increasing awareness, distributed via an easy-to-use and interactive website.
- Develop and distibute consumer educational material (pollination services and monarch friendly products).
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| Enhance capacity building, training and networking programs |
- Develop and conduct training programs for natural resource professionals, on using monitoring toolkit.
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