The 2024 Monarchs and More Network Meeting was held in cooperation with Monarch Joint Venture and Farmers for Monarchs at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, on March 5-7, 2024.Â
Copies of presentations are posted below as they are available. The full meeting agenda can be found here.
Inter-Agency Pollinator Collaboration
Center for Pollinator Conservation (CPC) Overview
Nicole Alt, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Department of Defense (DoD) Presentation
Stephanie Hertz, U.S. Department of Defense
Mike Rizo, U.S. Forest Service
Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) Overview
Juan Botero, U.S. Department of Energy
NRCS Activities and Perspectives about Monarchs
Ed Henry, National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)-BLM Pollinator Summary
Casey Burns, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Lightning Talks
TxDOT’s Participation in the Monarch CCAA – Environmental Factors: Drought
Sam Glinsky, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
Texas Monarch Flyway Strategy Overview
Deborah January-Bevers, Houston Wilderness
Operation Pollination Overview
Chris Stein, National Park Service (NPS)
Conserving Monarchs: We need to talk about pesticides
Emily May, Xerces
Creating Living Classrooms to Combat Monarch Declines
Emily Geest, Oklahoma City Zoo
Collaborative Conservation Benefits Pollinators
Wes Fleming, Evergy
REVEG: Balancing habitat enhancement alongside reliability
Steve Ryan and Steve Letkowski, PSE&G
Dave Kunz, DRG
Monarch Habitat Restoration in Canada
Victoria Woodhouse, Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF)
Schyler Rhea, Wildlife Habitat Federation (WHF)
Corteva Grows: Pollinator initatives with key partners
Chad Boeckman, Corteva
Goats as a Vegetation Management Solution
Kelvin Limbrick, ComEd
Resilient Landscapes for Monarchs
Kristen Baum, Monarch Watch
Measuring the Impact of the Native Plant Movement
Sara Ressing, Wild Ones
Project Wingspan: Sowing success at the grass roots
Andy Grinstead, Pollinator Partnership
Growing Commercially Available Milkweed Rhizomes for Restoration
Julia Michaels, Hedgerow Farms/NativeSeed Group
State of the Science (Breakout Session #2)
Adam Baker, Davey Institute
Field Museum Monarch Community Science
Karen Klinger, Field Museum
Utility-Scale Solar and Pollinator Ecosystem Services
Heidi Hartmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Monarch Conservation Strategies for Texas Roadways: Monarch flight diverters
Robert Coulson et al., Texas A&M
Floral Forecasts: Predicting shifts in monarch nectar resources
Erin Posthumus, National Phenology Network (USA-NPN)
Climate and Habitat Change in Mexico and Texas
Jay Diffendorfer, USGS
Community Conservation Workshop (Breakout Session #2)
Sand County Foundation Pollinator Habitat School Grants Program
Haley Diem, Sand County Foundation
New Opportunities in Community Science
Aster Hasle, Field Museum
Xerces’s Community-Powered Monarch Initatives
Isis Howard, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
A Collaborative Strategy for Pollinator Conservation
Dave Hunter, Crown Bees
Panel Presentation: Measuring Success
Mowing for Monarchs: Building a business case at VDOT
Amy Golden, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
Bee Better Electric: A national third-party verified program for pollinator-friendly energy projects
Jessica Fox, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Monarch Butterfly Business Plan and Measuring Success
Crystal Boyd, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
AZA Monarch Safe: Engaging zoos and aquariums in monarch conservation
Alyssa Taylor, Monarch Joint Venture (MJV)
Ecological Restoration and 25 Years of MMRV
Ryan White, SnapLands
Panel Presentation: Cross-Sector Collaboration
Oil and Gas Rights-of-Way: A Route to Recovery
Amy Snelgrove, Texan by Nature
Tim Fredericks, Bayer Crop Science
Tony Tipton, Columbia Gas/NiSource
Conservation Wins Through Solar Synergy
Elsa Gallagher, Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund
Pollinator Plantings on Agricultural Working Lands (Breakout Session #3)
Monarch Haven! Creating Habitat for a Thousand Monarchs from Bare Soil in a Sea of Corn and Beans
Jack Pizzo, The Pizzo Group
Texas Native Seeds: Developing commercially available native seed varieties
Anthony Falk, Texas Native Seeds
Seed a Legacy: Rooted in collaboration
Elsa Gallagher, Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund
Pollinator Conservation on Agricultural Lands in California
Josette Lewis, Almond Board of California
Tech Innovations in Conservation (Breakout Session #3)
Feedbutterflies.com: A searchable nectar plant resource
Susan Dunlap, Aerulean Plant Identification Systems, Inc.
Evaluating the Use of eDNA to Detect Pollinators on Rights-of-Way
Ashley Bennett, EPRI
MJV Conservation Remote Sensing Program
Wendy Caldwell, MJV
Automation and Scale for Capturing for Capturing and Processing Remotely Sensed Data
Greg Emerick, Simple Business Automation
Remote Sensing Solutions: Quantifying monarch butterfly habitat in Transportation Right-of-Way
Erica Christiansen, Stantec
Multi-Seed Pellets for Pollinator Habitat Restoration (Updated 3/28/2024)
Sam Cloete, Kannar Earth Science, Ltd.
Other Presentations:
Revised Extinction Risk Assessment
Wayne Thogmartin, USGS