This document provides a template monitoring plan to support monitoring for the Monarch CCAA. A monitoring plan is not required, however, some organizations may find a plan helpful for many reasons, including maintaining consistency from surveyor to surveyor (year to year) or to document organization-specific procedures for quality control purposes.
Monarch Assessments
MJV Monarch Roadside Habitat Evaluation Tool
This tool developed by the Monarch Joint Venture pairs a Rapid Assessment protocol for assessing current monarch habitat conditions along roadsides with a Habitat Calculator that computes monarch habitat quality scores for use in adaptive management.
Monarch Butterfly Habitat Quantification Tool Specifications Document
This tool developed for Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange. It is the product of Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Incentives, and the Monarch Lab at the University of Minnesota. This tool is used by the Exchange to evaluate habitat and estimate benefits to monarchs.
Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program 2018 Guidebook
This guide developed by Monarch Joint Venture describes the objectives and the various activities of the Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program.
Monarch Habitat Development on Utility Rights of Way (Northeast)
This manual written by the Pollinator Partnership offers helpful background information, planting guidelines, site and project evaluations, and checklists to assist utility rights-of-way managers in the Northeastern U.S.
Monarch Habitat Development on Utility Rights of Way (Northwest)
This manual written by the Pollinator Partnership offers helpful background information, planting guidelines, site and project evaluations, and checklists to assist utility rights-of-way managers in the Northwest U.S.
Monarch Habitat Development on Utility Rights of Way (Southeastern)
This manual written by the Pollinator Partnership offers helpful background information, planting guidelines, site and project evaluations, and checklists to assist utility rights-of-way managers in the Southeastern U.S.
Monarch Habitat Development on Utility Rights of Way (Southwestern)
This manual written by the Pollinator Partnership offers helpful background information, planting guidelines, site and project evaluations, and checklists to assist utility rights-of-way managers in the Southwest U.S.
Monarch Breeding Habitat Assessment Tool
This assessment tool developed by the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab provides public and private landowners key criteria and a scoring rubric for creating and managing monarch breeding and migratory habitat.