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I wanted to introduce you to some new website features and resources recently put out by the Monarch Joint Venture, as outlined in the message below. We hope that you'll take some time to explore these new resources, and enter your monarch habitat as a monarch "Success Story" on our website! Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback about any of these items. Also, if you would like to receive further updates from the MJV, please sign up for the updates on our website: <a href="http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/get-updates/" target="_blank">http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/get-updates/</a>, and Like us on Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/monarchjointventure" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/monarchjointventure</a>. </div>
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<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Wendy Caldwell<br>Community Program Specialist<br>Monarch Joint Venture<br><a href="http://www.monarchjointventure.org" target="_blank">www.monarchjointventure.org</a><br>University of Minnesota Monarch Lab<br>
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Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:12 PM<br>Subject: [MJV News] MJV's New Website Features and Resources<br>To: Wendy <<a href="mailto:maczi001@umn.edu">maczi001@umn.edu</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'open sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:28px;line-height:28px">MJV's New Website Features and Resources</span></h1>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">To inform monarch conservation efforts and engage citizens in monarch monitoring and conservation activities, MJV continuously works to create and improve resources for you to utilize and share. Recently, the MJV has added new informational flyers about monarch conservation, a habitat recognition program to highlight your efforts in creating habitat for monarchs, and a monarch breeding habitat assessment tool to gauge how suitable a breeding habitat might be for monarchs. </p>
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Habitat Recognition Program </h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">Creating a habitat can be as simple as planting milkweed to serve as a host plant for caterpillars, and native flowers that provide nectar to fuel monarch breeding and migration. Please visit the <a href="http://monarchjointventure.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=36bda6a499b08e987a972ecd1&id=4f89106466&e=dc2738045f" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:600;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,133,39);outline:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">Get Involved</a> tab on our website to learn more about what makes a successful habitat for monarchs. If you already have monarch habitat on your property, we want to hear from you! Click on the “<a href="http://monarchjointventure.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=36bda6a499b08e987a972ecd1&id=ea5ad81b04&e=dc2738045f" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:600;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,133,39);outline:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">Success stories</a>” tab to put your habitat on the map and inspire others to follow your lead.</p>
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<img alt="" src="http://monarchjointventure.org/images/uploads/document_thumbnails/HATthumb.png" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px; display: block; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; float: right; min-height: 260px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"></h3>
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Breeding Habitat Assessment Tool</h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">As we work to improve and create new monarch breeding habitat, we need metrics to gauge the quality and effectiveness of our habitat conservation efforts. Currently, no standard protocol exists with which to evaluate and characterize monarch breeding habitat quality. University of Minnesota researchers have identified key characteristics of quality monarch habitat, and have developed an easy-to-use assessment tool that can be used throughout the monarchs’ breeding range. Download the assessment tool on our <a href="http://monarchjointventure.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=36bda6a499b08e987a972ecd1&id=2d8d13308e&e=dc2738045f" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:600;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,133,39);outline:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">publications page</a> and see how suitable your habitat is for monarchs! Feel free to send any comments or questions about the tool to <a href="mailto:monarchs@monarchjointventure.org" target="_blank">monarchs@monarchjointventure.org</a>, we'd love to hear from you. </p>
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MJV Fact Sheet Series </h3>
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<img alt="" src="http://monarchjointventure.org/images/uploads/document_thumbnails/MJV_fact_sheet_thumb.jpg" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px; display: block; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; float: right; min-height: 259px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"></h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">In person communication and hands-on activities with monarchs are critical to engage others in monarch conservation. To help improve these educational efforts, MJV has created a series of monarch fact sheets to better inform those interested in monarchs and point them to resources for further exploration. These fact sheets, among other useful resources, can can be downloaded from the <a href="http://monarchjointventure.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=36bda6a499b08e987a972ecd1&id=8b6f2ac017&e=dc2738045f" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:600;line-height:1.6em;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(89,133,39);outline:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word" target="_blank">publications page</a> of our website. So far, we have developed fact sheets on the following topics: native milkweeds, the Monarch Joint Venture, gardening for monarchs, invasive swallow-wort, monarch rearing, and monarch conservation. If you have ideas about other topics that could be addressed, please email us! </p>
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Coming Soon: Citizen Science Newsletter </h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">Last, but not least, we're working on a monarch citizen science newsletter. This newsletter will promote various different monarch citizen science efforts and will relay important information that citizen scientists are contributing to monarch conservation. If you receive updates from the MJV, you are already signed up to receive this newsletter!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;line-height:21px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:15px;text-align:left">Please share our resources with others so that they too might become more involved in monarch conservation! </p>
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