Photo By Cpl. Thomas Mudd | Pfc. Michael Pressley, ammunition technician, Center Magazine Area, digs an area which...... read more read more
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - Volunteers and employees of the Combat Center’s Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center constructed a Monarch Butterfly Garden at the Curation Center, Sept. 26, 2015.
The garden is being created to help the butterflies that inhabit the installation. In recent years the population of the Monarch Butterfly has been decreasing and the Combat Center is doing its part to conserve and improve those numbers. The garden will be filled with various flowers and several types of Milkweed, which is the only type of plant the Monarch Butterfly uses to lay eggs.
“The purpose of the garden is to give a safe place for the Monarch Butterfly to feed and reproduce,” said D’Anne Albers, curation technician, Curation Center. “The federal government recently put out a mandate telling everyone to do what they can to help the butterflies.”
The federal government came out with a “National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators” mandate which promotes the creation of habitats for the Monarch Butterfly as well as several other pollinating insects and stops the decrease of their respective populations.
The Department of Defense Legacy Award program and the Officers’ Spouses Club gave the Curation Center a grant to construct the garden for National Public Lands Day. National Public Lands Day is held annually at the end of each September. The day promotes the conservation of public lands throughout the United States.
“We received the grants to build the garden but we could not have completed the garden if it was not for the volunteers from the base,” Albers said.
According to Albers the members of the Curation Center were unsure if the foundation of the garden would be completed that day. The volunteers were glad to participate in the project and were able to complete everything except for the irrigation and sowing of the garden’s plants, which is estimated to be completed by mid-November.
“It makes me proud to be one of the people who worked to make something that will give life,” said Lance Cpl. Jason Loofborough, supply clerk, Exercise Support Division.
The Monarch Butterfly Garden will be the Combat Center’s helping hand in preserving the butterflies and bringing wildlife to the Combat Center.
| Date Taken: | 09.26.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 09.29.2015 17:11 |
| Story ID: | 177525 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, US |
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