Portions of the Upland Trail's north slope are hayed every
mid-summer. Several stands of milkweed (mostly Common) are found in
this area. With the Monarch becoming imperiled, Paul and I decided to
delineate the best stands in the north slope, with the hope preserving
some habitat and the plants that this butterfly depends on. We
completed this work on Saturday morning. We have asked the Parks Dept
to inform the farmer of this, with the hope that he will not hay these
stands. The haying operation began on Friday with the two eastern-most
slopes. At left, Paul is attaching pink flagging to a milkweed. At
right, one of the Monarch caterpillars found during this operation. 8/1/15 (Wolf. Oesterreich)
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