Preserves With a Purpose

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City and beyond. If you see a couple people out on your favorite preserves pulling up invasive spotted knapweed, or planting black-eyed Susans it is probably just us doing all we can to keep the monarch population strong and vibrant here in Walloon!

This year, the WLAC, Skylar, and Lauri will team up to create butterfly habitats on three preserve sites: the Wildwood Harbor Preserve, Voran Family Preserve, and Indian Garden Nature Area. Although these new habitats will help all pollinating insects, we will be focusing our plantings mostly around monarch butterflies. How so? We will be planting several types of native milkweed species at each location as they are the monarch caterpillar’s only source of food.

So this year as you are walking through all the wildflowers on a beautiful sunny summer day, we hope you will be surrounded by thousands of pollinating insects including the endangered monarch butterfly. Our goal is to create thriving ecosystems on our preserves, which will also be beautiful educational areas for all to enjoy and engage with Mother Nature. Make sure to join us at the 2023 Native Plant Sale on June 24th where we will have shoreline and special pollinator garden kits available!