From: Lee and Polly HALL (hallonwhipp@webtv.net)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 20:02:49 EST
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Greetings: We have read with interest the reports on all the Monarchs.
We have raised our own Monarchs and have helped in Dr. Urquhart's study
at University of Toronto. The decline in local sightings has been
alarming and you can imagine my surprise today as my wife, Polly and I
were passing out some election material to see a MONARCH flitting around
some mums planted in a front yard. During the course of our election
work we mentioned the Monarch to a young lady walking her dog. It turned
out that she has been a volunteer at the local Five Rivers Metro Parks
whose levy we were supporting and believe it or not she had worked this
past summer at the "Butterfly House" at Cox Arboretum one of our parks.
We shared our fear that this last Monarch might not make it to Mexico.
We have been experiencing unusually high temperatures here in Dayton
(Southwest Ohio) with high temperatures in the low 70s. Vaya con dios
to our "last Monarch" Lee Hall
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