Advance registration required.
Date: Tuesday June 24th
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Pavilion 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe
Cost: Non-member $15/ Member $12/ Youth 4-17 $7/ Age 0-3 Free
Join Kaitlin Haase, Pollinator Conservation Specialist with the Xerces Society, for a presentation on the marvelous and magnificent monarch butterfly! This strikingly charismatic pollinator is well known for its incredible migration from Mexico to Canada and its connection to milkweed as a host plant. Recently proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act, the monarch needs our help to create and protect habitat throughout its international range including New Mexico! We’ll search the garden for nectar and host plants preferred by monarchs in our region, discuss how to grow these native pollinator plants in your garden, and share ways to contribute to community science projects and volunteer for habitat restoration in New Mexico.
About Kaitlin:
As the Southwest Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Kaitlin works to create climate-resilient, connected pollinator habitat in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. She collaborates with and educates public and private land managers in New Mexico and the desert Southwest on pollinator-friendly practices for landscaping, gardening, and open space restoration. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Northern Arizona University, where she studied impacts of drying on aquatic invertebrate diversity in natural and human-made ponds. Before graduate school, she worked as an ecological science technician in a variety of systems across the US, including predator-prey ecology in Michigan, riparian restoration in Virginia, and rare species monitoring in Massachusetts.
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