<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><p>From today's Minneapolis Star Tribune:</p><p><i>"</i><i>The rapid spread of herbicide-resistant crops has coincided with --
and may explain -- the dramatic decline in monarch numbers that has
troubled some naturalists over the past decade, according to a new study
by researchers at the University of Minnesota and Iowa State
University…."</i></p><div>The full story (featuring Drs Karen Oberhauser, John Pleasants, Chip Taylor, and others) is available here:</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.startribune.com/local/143017765.html?page=all&prepage=2&c=y#continue</div><div>-- </div><div><div><div><div>Eric Mӓder</div><div>Assistant Pollinator Program Director</div><div> The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</div><div>Assistant Professor of Extension</div><div> University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">1971 – 2011: Forty Years of Conservation!</p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>We have moved!<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">628 NE Broadway Suite 200, Portland, OR 97232, USA</p></div><div>eric@xerces.org</div><div>Tel: (503) 232-6639 ext. 106</div><div>Toll free: 1-855-232-6639 ext. 106</div><div>Cell: (503) 989-3649</div><div>Skype: eric_mader_xerces_society</div><div>(日本語でどうぞ)</div><div><br></div><div>Find all the information you need to conserve pollinator habitat at: www.xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/</div><div><br></div><div>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat.</div><div><br></div><div>To join the Society, make a contribution, or read about our work, please visit www.xerces.org.</div><div><br></div><div>NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE:</div><div>Attracting Native Pollinators. Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>