In this week’s edition of Earth Matters, co-producer Nathan Newcomer interviews local community members involved with the Butterfly Way Project, a habitat restoration in the Gila River Valley dedicated to the memory of Michael Sebastian Mahl, Ella Jaz Kirk, and Ella Sala Myers.
Butterfly Way is located on The Nature Conservancy property along the riverine corridor of the Gila River, in Southwestern New Mexico, promoting an increase in the diversity of native plant hosts for butterflies, birds, bees and other pollinators.
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Their objectives are to create lasting beauty by increasing floral and faunal diversity, improving critical habitat for sustaining Monarch butterfly populations and providing a place for research and study of the role of pollinators and their native plant hosts.
Learn more about this effort and how you can support and participate in it by visiting
butterflywayproject.org
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50-Year Water Planning with Norm Gaume Earth Matters co-host and Gila Resources Information Project executive director Allyson Siwik talks to former Interstate Stream Commission director and Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly President Norm Gaume about New Mexico’s 50-year water planning effort. The State of New Mexico has been engaged in […]
