Community Scientist Training During the 2015 Wild Ones Annual Conference, Wild Ones Honorary Director Dr. Karen Oberhauser and Sanny Oberhauser taught attendees “how to be a citizen scientist”, an introduction and training in various citizen science programs related to monarchs. To learn more about monarchs and what citizen scientists look for, watch the hands-on video […]
Monarch Watch Monarch Watch – Bring Back the Monarchs (BBTM) program In 2012, Wild Ones began a partnership with Monarch Watch’s BBTM program. An outgrowth of the Monarch Watch Waystation Program, its goal is to restore 20 milkweed species, used by monarch caterpillars as food, to their native ranges throughout the United States and to encourage […]
As a writer and scientist, upcoming Wild Ones national webinar speaker, Robin Wall Kimmerer, is interested in both the restoration of ecological communities and the restoration of our relationships to land. Kimmerer’s work is a call to rediscover our role as participants in the natural world. She articulates a compelling vision: “a renewed sense of the […]
Welcome to the Wild for Monarchs program, a collaborative effort between Wild Ones and Monarch Joint Venture dedicated to the conservation of monarch butterflies and their critical habitats. Our goal is to create and sustain healthy ecosystems by emphasizing the vital relationship between native plants and pollinators. The mutual work of Wild Ones and Monarch […]
