Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.
The plan has landowners along the route commit to restoring and creating millions of acres of pollinator habitat that have been decimated by land development and herbicide use.
The march toward extinction appears to be nearing an end for monarch butterflies in California, whose numbers have declined precipitously over the last two decades.
