As an Indigenous woman raised with “love for our planet,” she knew she needed to act after reading about the monarch’s decline. She planted over 1,000 plants for pollinators, fencing off about 7.5 acres.

When “one gorgeous, big monarch” finally showed up a few miles from the ranch last September, she took off running. “I wanted to get a picture, and I wanted to see what it was going to land on,” she said.

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