Monarch butterfly help, anyone? Buy some milkweed, create a Monarch waystation!

[Brother Buzz]

1. My neighbor has his own little program going

He's a retired wetland biologist (State and Federal) and developed a lot of connections with farmers and ranchers over California's central Valley. He knows tons of marginal areas that are perfect, and seems to have an unlimited supply of milkweed seeds, so he broadcasts a little here and a little there in his travels.

I grew up near a modest winter Monarch butterfly colony in a eucalyptus grove in southern Marin County, California. I visited it recently and was devastated to discover condominiums had displaced the grove - gone, just totally gone. Fortunately, there are other sites in the area, but the butterfly population has been decimated; totally underwhelming compared to my childhood memories of butterflies everywhere.