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‘Butterflies in Bloom’ forum urges homeowners to plant native milkweed as western monarchs remain scarce
Summary
At Calabasas’s environmental forum, local experts warned western monarch populations remain low (2025 overwintering counts just over 12,000), urged residents to plant native milkweed and nectar plants, highlighted a Malibu Creek State Park native-garden project funded by a California State Parks Foundation grant and distributed free milkweed packets.
Local conservationists and volunteer stewards urged residents at a Calabasas environmental forum to plant native milkweed and nectar plants to help western monarch butterflies, which panelists said remain at historically low levels.
Ari Silberman of the Monarch Fellowship described the group’s hub model for distributing free native seeds, training volunteer “hubs” and mapping neighborhood pollinator patches. "Monarchs are dependent on two things for survival, milkweed and native plants bearing nectar-producing flowers," Silberman said, and urged homeowners to create even a small 5-by-7-foot patch to…
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