Bridget Rollins
Appearances
Short Wave
The Battle To Save Monarch Butterflies
And a huge push for that has been getting farmers, getting landowners to plant areas of milkweed to maybe leave some acres unsprayed to encourage monarch habitat and to do some citizen conservation work like counting species.
Short Wave
The Battle To Save Monarch Butterflies
I think there's a big concern amongst, you know, farmers in particular here. You know, we've done all this work. We've been trying to do right by this. But maybe now we're going to be in a position where our good work makes it actually harder for us once the species is listed.
Short Wave
The Battle To Save Monarch Butterflies
They very famously passed a lot of regulations that have now since been overturned. But at the time were considered a pretty monumental issue. kind of a shift away from how the Endangered Species Act had been implemented. So I would not be surprised to see that again.