Lincoln Brower, Champion of the Monarch Butterfly dies at 86.

[Catherine]

I won't go into all the details of his life. That is what the article is for. Lincoln Brower spent his life studying Monarchs and understanding their amazing migration. He worked to protect their wintering grounds in Mexico and alerted us to the dangers of pesticides and lack of milkweed. His work was instrumental in saving the Monarchs. 


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/obitu...at-86.html

The numbers have not returned to what they were, but they are better than the year we saw no Monarchs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer

I don't think he just crossed the Rainbow Bridge, I think millions of Monarchs must have carried him across.

Lincoln Brower may be gone, but his work lives on in the efforts of many to save the Monarchs. I dare say that somehow without my knowing it he is the reason that I have milkweed growing all over my garden. I even have two species of milkweed. If the monarchs come I am ready for them