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    Conservation’s orange flag

    Aug 30, 2019 6 minutes
    By Sara Ruberg

    Dan Jenkins resides in a monarch butterfly oasis.

    He is doing everything he can to keep it that way, despite increasing challenges for the species.

    When his family moved decades ago to property on the southern tip of Upper Saranac Lake, they didn’t realize they were inheriting a monarch landing strip along with the house. When Jenkins first started seeing the floods of monarchs around his house in the early 1990s, he had to learn more. Now, his garden thrives with milkweed and flowers beside his overgrown yard, encompassed by trees on one side and the lake on the other—a monarch’s paradise.

    “It was a phenomenon to see them streaming by this place,” Jenkins said. “It was just stunning … that migration, it’s just magical or something.”

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    Then, in 1997, he stumbled upon a monarch tagging program through an organization called Monarch Watch. The tags are small stickers used to help Monarch Watch track the monarchs’ migration to overwintering sites in Mexico. When someone finds a monarch with a tag, either in Mexico

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