Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Building a Butterfly Highway

June 8, 2015

 

The White House recently announced plans to set aside a “highway” of conserved habitat between Texas and Minnesota that will aid embattled monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, part of a larger federal effort to protect crop pollinators. An ecologist who studies biological diversity has argued in Issues that such policy innovations are also needed elsewhere in the world to protect animal species whose long migrations place them in heightened peril.