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As corn monoculture established itself in the Midwest, farmers set about eliminating natural milkweed patches. She wants us to care about the monarchs, the plants, and the other living creatures, including the human ones, and to take better care of the world in which we all live. The group estimates that the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over 10 years, depending on the measurement method. The idea to bike from Mexico to Canada and back with the migrating monarch butterflies arose from a simple wish to visit them.
All I knew was that treasures were not easy to find, and that winter’s beauty was guarded by vast space, steep mountains, and the echoes of a long-standing forest. Sara Dykman is a wildlife biologist who in 2017 biked over 10,000 miles on her journey to follow the Monarchs and to expand awareness about the challenges to their survival.Thanks to this book, readers have a better idea of what that incredible journey entails… Dykman’s enthusiasm will motivate others to be more thoughtful about their decisions. That tour, a month of 40-mile days up the East Coast, taught me a useful truth: a long trip is nothing more than a collection of miles. I learned a lot about monarchs from this book, and I definitely know that I will never, ever (honestly, I could never, ever) travel 10,000+ miles on a bicycle to observe and promote the monarchs like Sara Dykman. People have long been fascinated by the monarch butterfly's migration across the North American continent. Her latest adventure found her traveling more than 10,000 miles from Mexico to Canada and back to Mexico, following the migration of monarch butterflies.
Laps around the block, then the neighborhood, then the city, trained me for my first bicycle tour when I was 17. On top of that, Sara does a wonderful job providing suggestions for attracting monarchs and also advocating for their protection.Sara includes a number of facts about monarchs and their natural history, which I really appreciate, and I enjoyed reading about her travels, both the struggles and the triumphs. When you have over 10,000 miles to document it isn’t surprising that some of it is filled with homilies like: "The temperature plummeted that night. Monarch butterfly on swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, at Dyck Arboretum of the Plains in late August. The author's goal seemed to be wanting to raise awareness, which I think she accomplished; yet I struggled to understand why she felt the need to spend months bicycling their route and how doing so was that important. You can truly feel the passion Dykman has for these butterflies, which is the most inspiring part of this book, although the fact that she biked 10,000 miles was also incredibly inspiring and made me feel that if someone can do that, I can also achieve my goals.
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