Monarch Moonshot: Officials hope to make Linn County center of butterfly production and habitat
MARION — The launchpad is prepared for a pair of projects aimed at making Linn County the epicenter of both monarch butterfly production and the habitat they and other pollinators need to sustain themselves.
“We are engaged in a couple of ‘moonshots’ that will help us accomplish our mission to restore the monarch population and habitat for all pollinators in Linn County,” Clark McLeod, director of the Monarch Research Project, told more than 150 supporters at a celebration of the organization’s one-year anniversary Tuesday.
Success at the Linn County level would position organization officials to invite other communities to join the effort, McLeod said following a tour of the Monarch Research Station on Lakeside Road in Marion.
