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The Butterfly Effect

MADISON AUDUBON’S GOOSE Pond Sanctuary is a birder’s paradise. But when visitors roam its tall grasses in late summer, many are searching for winged wildlife with six legs—not two.

Monarch butterflies thrive in the milkweed-rich Wisconsin prairie.

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