On June 11, 2017, Calvert Hospice held an event at Kings Landing Park, in which family of passed loved ones could release Monarch butterflies as a way of letting them go. This is done every year along with their Festival of Wreaths event in December. A Calvert Hospice representative shared some information on their services […]
Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Maryland Department of Natural Resources $32,000 from the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund to support butterfly conservation and habitat restoration projects. “Over the past 20 years, monarch population losses as high as 90 percent have been reported in some parts of the United States,” Natural Resources Invertebrate Ecologist […]