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first time for me welcome. It's good. You

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didn't come last year. We had zero to the

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monarchs when they, when they leave the areas where

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they are in late summer, early fall. They

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can't stay up in the northern part of the United

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States and even in Canada because the temperatures are too

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cold and they'll freeze. So they come down along

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the California coast. For the monarch butterflies are probably

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the lifeblood of this community. We rely so much

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on them for hospitality, tourism, marketing, anything

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that we do ties with the monarchs and the migration

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of the monarchs. There is a concern and the

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concern is that the numbers have dipped so severely and

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so drastically in the last few years, California has

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been in a drought for several years now and they

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need an extra sources in order to be able to

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fill their bellies and be active and survive. So

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If we don't have nectar sources and we don't have

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the water that's providing that then that is an issue

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. All the sites last year had very low low

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numbers and like I said, is under 2000 for

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the total Western population, it was really a disaster

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. And it was the first year in many,

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many years. I don't recall having such a bad

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year before And I thought they were done. They

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were gone and I'm gonna ever come back. And

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sure enough this year boom, they landed last year

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we had under 2000 and this year already, it's

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an estimated 50,000. So that's huge. And we're

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excited about that. But the next thing is what's

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going to happen next year, next season, we

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have to really look at long term. We can't

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just look at this year. It's nice that we

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can see that they're still around. So, you

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know, don't stop protecting them or anything, whatever

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we gotta do and keep this number around.