NOVA Program on Monarch Butterflies
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- January
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Brooke Beebe knows how much I like monarchs and forwarded this note about a NOVA program on TV tomorrow night.
As Brooke says, “The Kansas Monarch Watch folks are great, and they’re happy to put butterfly nuts like me on their email list.”
Looks like a winner. Here’s the listing:
“On TV: The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
“From time to time the monarch migration and associated conservation issues are covered in the national media, via articles in newspapers, magazines, and short clips on TV news programs. Overall, the coverage of the monarch story has been spotty bits and pieces, and Americans have not been exposed to an in-depth treatment of the amazing monarch migration, nor the people and cultures that encounter monarchs on their yearly north and south passage across the continent. This is about to change. NOVA’s “The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies” will be aired on PBS at 8PM (check local listings) Tuesday, 27 January 2009.
Read Chip’s complete blog posting online at http://monarchwatch.org/blog/
Jim—Jim Lovett
jlovett@ku.edu
Program Assistant
http://www.MonarchWatch.org
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
Thanks for posting this, Bill. I thought the butterfly program was a bit simplistic and and there seemed to be a lot of useless filler shots. That time could have been better used to describe what Monarchs need on their journey – access to lots of nectar in native plants – and their relationship with milkweeds, and what happens to those tagged butterflies, and why are those forests being logged. The graphics showing the journey were great, though, and maybe this was interesting enough for the general public. I would love to see other comments.
Yeah, I gave it a good try but got bored with it pretty quickly and switched back to Oberman. As you say, it was very short on good information and long on dopey filler shots. I too wanted more on the forests in Mexico.