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Presentation:
"Flutterby - Butterflies"
(presenting at local schools only
during the week prior to the festival )
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view)
"Flutterby - Butterflies" - Natural history of butterflies
including life cycle, habits, habitats, survival techniques, role
in nature's scheme, butterfly gardening, and significance to
humans.
Ranger Steve Mueller
Butterflies are Ranger Steve's
passion. Butterflies give life's excitement energy. By exploring
the lives or butterflies and their habitats Ranger Steve gets to
work in exciting and beautiful places.
Ranger Steve discovered breeding populations of the Northern Blue
butterfly in Michigan. The state immediately listed the species as
threatened and provided a life history research grant. He also
discovered the state record for the Pine White in Utah. His work
with plants, butterflies, and birds has provides evidence
supporting for wilderness preservation. Wilderness is essential
for the long term health of butterflies and human society.
Ranger Steve expects everyone to leave today knowing what they can
do to make their own life more enjoyable and healthy by being able
to help butterflies..
He provides programs and conducts research through Ody Brook
Enterprises and is director of the Howard Christensen Nature
Center for the Kent Intermediate School District.
Please welcome Ranger Steve as we examine "Flutterby Butterflies".
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