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Monarchs have declined by 80 % over the last 20 years. Monsanto's GMO crops and Roundup pesticides have removed the milkweed plants that monarchs eat. "In addition to glyphosate, monarchs are threatened by other herbicides including dicamba, Enlist Duo and by neonicotinoid insecticides that are toxic to young caterpillars." https://www.ecowatch.com/monarch-butterfly-population-migration-2543505935.html

E.O.wilson writes that we need field biologists and protected reserves for about one half of the earth.

www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Yesterday, I saw a group of about 25 northern shovelers swimming in a tight circle on the pond in the CU research park by the bike path SW of Foothills and Arapahoe. They herd and eat insects and snails that they stir up with their feet in the mud. Also, ringneck ducks were doing their mating displays, ducking under, leaping up, splashing, with their wings.   http://nwbackyardbirder.blogspot.com/2010/11/feeding-habits-of-northern-shoveler.html

Feb 9 & 10 at SEEC building in Boulder- these talks inspire hope!

https://frontrangeecosocialsolution2018.sched.com/

There is a new article in the Rolling Stone by on how the Republicans are using 3 things to disenfranchise everyone else: dark money; gerrymandering with vote stuffing ( make a few districts 100% Dems and then have most districts with a 60% Republicans); and making it harder to vote: by requiring new ids , limiting the hours open, limiting the locations, taking people off the voting rolls if they don't respond to a postcard, removing them if they miss an election, removing them if they have a name similar to a felon, challenging them at the polls, posting flyers in lower income areas that give the wrong times and locations for voting, putting up signs saying that people will face arrest if they vote while they have unpaid fines, posting police men at the polls to intimidate, not having enough machines in Dem precincts, and the hacking the electronic voting machines and the vote counting machines,.... (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gop-rigs-elections-gerrymandering-voter-id-laws-dark-money-w515664)

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-rights-of-nature-movement-goes-on-trial-w515299