Working with Municipalities to Implement Monarch Conservation
Channel: Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Date: 2017-02-22

Nathan Eckert discusses the complex life-cycle of native freshwater mussels and how the challenges it presents are dealt with in the hatchery setting. Specifically, he will discuss the Mobile Aquatic Rearing Station, or MARS trailer, a streamside mussel rearing unit that the Genoa National Fish Hatchery uses to culture thousands of mussels for release in the Upper Mississippi River Basin on an annual basis.

Catherine Wheeler shares er experiences working with the City of St. Louis on Monarch Conservation Programs. She highlights the best practices and challenges of developing and delivering a variety of monarch conservation programs through (or with the support of) a local government. For more information, please see her Biophilic Cities Project webinar on urban monarch conservation and social impact.