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... 1 Overview This project examined the potential for roadway corridors to provide habitat for monarch butterflies and developed tools for roadside managers to optimize potential habitat for monarch butterflies in their road rights-of-way (ROWs)
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... 2 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies Products A through D are available online (https://monarchjointventure.org/ roadsidehabitat) for departments of transportation who want to learn more about the habitat in the road corridors they manage.
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... Summary 3 milkweed, especially along the majority of roads (which are moderate to low traffic volume) , harbor milkweed of suitable nutritional quality for monarchs.
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... 4 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies may be given to road management crews to help them to identify milkweed growing in their roadside corridors and choose appropriate management actions, such as avoiding the application of herbicide to milkweed and planning mowing activity to avoid when monarchs are breeding in their locality. "Monarch Butterflies, Weeds, and Herbicides" is a resource sheet that is also available.
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... Summary 5 • The habitat quality scores generated automatically by the Habitat Calculator may be used to identify high-quality sites and sites where habitat could be improved. • Departments of transportation are encouraged to use the decision-support tools and best management practices information made available through the website https:// monarchjointventure.org/roadsidehabitat to support their monarch conservation efforts.
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... 6 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies This project has also created several opportunities with respect to broader conservation goals. First, while this project focused on monarchs, this species serves as a flagship species for many other species, both plant and animal, that support natural ecological functions.

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