It was a disturbing scene that Natalie Johnston and her team from the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History came across on Jan. 25, 2024, on…
For years advocates for monarch butterflies have argued that the insects need to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Despite their …
The annual Thanksgiving count of monarch butterflies last fall saw a dip in the number of the insects at 256 overwintering sites on the West C…
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History has been operating since 1883. It’s one of the oldest natural history museums in the U.S.; in 1935…
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The first tagged monarch butterfly to be recovered in California this season was found on Sept. 7, a sure sign that the annual monarch migrati…
In 1890, the Southern Pacific Railroad began rumbling down the railroad tracks from the north along Monterey Bay, through Cannery Row and alon…
FREE SPEECHBack in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the public had questions for the Monterey County Health Department about where out…
There have only been a couple of monarchs spied inside the Pacific Grove Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary since the overwintering season officially…