Adopt-a-Highway Milkweed Monitoring
Our chapter is helping to save the largest native Showy Milkweed patch in Lane County by working with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) as an Adopt-a-Highway program. Milkweed is the only larval food plant for the monarch butterfly. This milkweed patch is located on Highway 126 between 28th and Mohawk in Springfield. During litter pick-ups, we can monitor the ODOT mowing schedule to ensure that it keeps the invasive plants under control while also allowing the milkweed to grow, bloom, and set seed each year. While we are there, we plan to also look for monarch adults, eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalids at the site.
See below for work party reports: