The Southwest Monarch Study is a citizen science program dedicated to monarch butterfly research and conservation in the Southwest United States including Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, western Colorado and the California deserts. We provide training to help citizen scientists tag monarchs on their migration and to monitor milkweed and monarch habitats. We advocate for creating monarch and butterfly gardens with plants native to the Southwest United States.
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