[Pollinator] Fwd: [MJV News] MJV's New Website Features and Resources

[Wendy Caldwell]

Hi Everyone!

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:
http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/get-updates/, and Like us on
Facebook: www.facebook.com/monarchjointventure.

Thanks!

Wendy Caldwell
Community Program Specialist
Monarch Joint Venture
www.monarchjointventure.org
University of Minnesota Monarch Lab
www.monarchlab.org
Phone: 612-624-8706


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Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:12 PM
Subject: [MJV News] MJV's New Website Features and Resources
To: Wendy <maczi001 at umn.edu>


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New Website Features and Resources

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.
Habitat Recognition Program

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 Get
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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 "Success
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tab to put your habitat on the map and inspire others to follow your lead.
 Breeding Habitat Assessment Tool

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 publications
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see how suitable your habitat is for monarchs! Feel free to send any
comments or questions about the tool to monarchs at monarchjointventure.org,
we'd love to hear from you.
MJV Fact Sheet Series

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 publications
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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!
Coming Soon: Citizen Science Newsletter

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!

Please share our resources with others so that they too might become more
involved in monarch conservation!


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