Tonight, on the PBS Newshour...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

The bipartisan bill to fund the government was being discussed.

There was a very brief mention of one of the parts that concerned the Butterfly Sanctuary that is in Texas and Mexico. According to the news story, this will not be bulldozed after all, but will remain as it's currently configured.

I have not been able to find anything about this, except on PBS.

Does anyone know anything about this?

TIA!

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I think your answer is here

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/14/government-shutdown-deal-includes-protections-south-texas-landmarks/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yay!!!

I was so sad and angry about that sanctuary. Trump seems to be hell-bent on destroying everything good and beautiful, and now at least he can't take this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. YES! That is just what I need to see. Thank you SO MUCH.

I'd gone to the Butterfly website, but they didn't have this latest news.

Bless you for finding this.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Thank you for posting that NRL!

I'll be happier turning in for the night now.

[MontanaMama]

3. This is great news.

Thank you for ending my day on a positive note.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. All I did was ask....NRaleighLiberal provided the answer!

I've been so worried about this particular issue.

Last year, my husband and I went to see the local butterfly exhibit at the LA Natural History Museum, and it was amazing.

It really woke me up to how wonderful and beautiful and fragile they are.

[MontanaMama]

6. I accompanied my middle school son and some of his classmates

on a trip to Belize last summer. We visited a butterfly sanctuary and it was honestly a highlight of our trip. Stunning, gentle beauty.

[BigmanPigman]

7. My sister noticed a sharp decline in Monarchs this year

since she raises dozens each year as a hobby. I sent her a DU posted article I read about this happening in CA and may be due to the climate. Between the fucking moron destroying every living thing and climate change I wonder how these fragile beauties will survive.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I've heard that too......and I also wonder.

But at least the Sanctuary will be there.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I noticed we only had about half our usual number of hummingbirds this year.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. earlier thread on the butterfly sanctuary

What's in Border Security bill: Good news for the Butterfly sanctuary & some constraints on admin

Has a WaPo link

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Thank you for the great link!

[Hekate]

13. I used to live not far from the Butterfly Sanctuary on the bluffs of Ellwood Beach...

It's in Goleta, north of Santa Barbara. There's a eucalyptus grove that somehow became a major resting stop during the great West Coast migrations of Monarch butterflies. Time was, tens of thousands, indeed over a hundred thousand butterflies would rest there at once. In the past few years though the population has plummeted...

Some of my friends who were docents at the Natural History Museum also volunteered at Ellwood Grove. Preserving this little bit of land overlooking the ocean became a passionate community project.

All I can think of is that if Trump sent his bulldozers out there to build a wall the entire community would have gone apeshit.

Trump and his enablers simply have no soul.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I agree: they have no soul.

Good to hear about the Butterfly Sanctuary!