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Rapid City Community Garden Working To Save Monarchs

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A community garden in Rapid City is working with an international nonprofit organization to help preserve the monarch butterfly.

General Beadle Community Garden has partnered with the Xerces Society, which works to conserve invertebrates and their habitats.

Community garden coordinator Devaney Crafton tells KOTA-TV ( ) they’ve planted milkweed and other native plans to create a safe space for monarchs.

Crafton says they partnered with the Xerces Society to create a breeding habitat and a way station for monarchs to stop and eat in their migration process. She says gardeners across the nation are trying to create as many way stations as possible to protect the species.

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Information from: KOTA-TV,

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