<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;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Matthew Shepherd <<a href="mailto:mdshepherd@xerces.org" class="">mdshepherd@xerces.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi everyone,</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We just wanted to let you all know that a new report about the monarch butterfly is now available. The report was prepared for the U.S. Forest Service by NatureServe and the Xerces Society. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The thing that marks this report from others is that it includes a newly completed assessment that found that monarch butterflies in North America are vulnerable to extinction. The assessment was done using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">NatureServe’s conservation status assessment methodology, which has been successfully applied to hundreds of species of animals.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Using data on population abundance, trends, and threats, it was determined that while the monarch butterfly species as a whole,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Danaus plexippus</i>, is apparently secure, the subspecies occurring in North America,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Danaus plexippus plexippus</i>, is vulnerable to extinction. Under the assessment, the North American monarchs were split into an eastern population that migrates from as far north as southern Canada to central Mexico each fall, and a smaller western population, that largely migrates to coastal California to spend the winter. The eastern monarch population was assessed as “critically imperiled” due to recent rapid decline and widespread threats. The western population, with a slightly slower rate of decline and less widespread threats, was categorized as “vulnerable to imperiled.”</span></span><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;" class=""></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The report,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Conservation Status and Ecology of the Monarch Butterfly in the United States</i>, summarizes the monarch’s North American distribution, life history, population, current conservation status, and potential causes of decline. In addition, it includes a set of breeding and overwintering habitat management recommendations. This report aims to inform government agencies charged with biodiversity protection, as well as conservation organizations and the public in general, about the threats to and current conservation status of this much-loved, iconic insect.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="A7" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Download<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Conservation Status and Ecology of the Monarch Butterfly in the United States</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NatureServe-Xerces_monarchs_USFS-final.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NatureServe-Xerces_monarchs_USFS-final.pdf</a><span style="" class="">.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Matthew</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">________</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Matthew Shepherd</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">, Communications Director</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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