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"Monarch Mentors" provides opportunities for nature enthusiasts to learn about: habitat restoration in order to re-establish healthy numbers of monarchs & pollinators and then to help educate the public to plant native milkweed species and nectar-rich plants. This seems the only way for the low monarch populations to return to previous healthy numbers.
Habitat. Habitat. Habitat.
January 1-21, 2015
Transylvania County Library --- Pollinator Giving Tree (upstairs between the Conference Room and NC Reference Room) and two glass cabinet kiosks
January 5, 2015 (Monday) 5:15-7:15pm
Monarch Mentors Training. Location: Transylvania County Library Conference Room
February MM meeting:
February 12, 2015 - Online Webinar with USFWS-National Conservation Training Center
"Habitat Restoration Fundamentals: Time-tested approaches and new advancements in creating monarch butterfly habitat" with Eric Lee-Mäder of The Xerces Society
Group meeting site - upstairs at Transylvania County Library 1:30-4pm. RSVP.
February 2-28, 2015
Transylvania Community Library and Extension Master Gardener Volunteers
Joyce Pearsall developed a monarch display kiosk.
Friday, Feb. 27 : Green Matters one-day pollinator symposium in Silver Spring, MD. Info here:
http://www.montgomeryparks.org/brookside/green_matters_symposium.shtm
March 2, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
March 12, 2015 Byrd Auditorium, NCTC, Shepherdstown, WV 7pm
http://wildread.blogspot.com/2015/02/robert-michael-pyle-to-moderate-monarch.html?spref=tw
(this event begins on March 1 with online participation; see link for full details)
March 22, 2015 (Sunday) Monarch March Madness afternoon program in Chattanooga, TN;
Hosted by Monarch Mentor Lisa Lemza; program by Ina Warren.
Grace Episcopal Church, a Greenfaith congregation, 20 Belvoir Ave., Chattanooga, TN, 37404
April 6, 2015 (Easter Monday) White House Easter Egg Roll
April 13, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
April 18, 2015 (Saturday)
Make Way for Monarchs education pavilion tent at Brevard College Eaarthfest
May 4, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
June 1, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
June 15-21 : Pollinator Week activities :-)
July 6, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
August 3, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
September 7, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training.
October 5, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training
November 2, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training
December 7, 2015 (Monday)
Monarch Mentors Training
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