2022 Mobile Migration

Mobile Migration

Mobile Migration 2022 Information:

New 2022 Mobile Migration Map Link : TBD
Mobile Migration Statement, Garden list with hyperlinks: 2022 Mobile Migration Map

Again in 2022 we are hosting a Mobile Migration activity, symbolizing the Tri-country migration of Monarchs from their northern breeding grounds up along the Canadian/US border south through the US west of the Rockies to their over-wintering grounds in the Oyamel fir forests of Central Mexico, a nearly 3000-mile journey! We have chosen 6 gardens ranging from Boston Avenue Church as our northern-most point, down to the Audubon Society’s Flycatcher Trail in Jenks. In between are some nifty locations of which many of you may be unaware. Feel free to hop on the migration path at any Letter as you see fit. Signage at each location will tell you something about various aspects of how the migration coincides with stages of a Monarch’s life cycle and the generational progression of their journey! Enjoy and have fun!

Past Mobile Migration Habitats –

  1. Boston Avenue Church – Think outside the garden fence borders! These two “Islands of Refreshment” are actual certified Monarch Waystations and can serve as refueling stops in a decidedly urban environment. Rattlesnake Master, Ironweed, Gumweed, Blue Vervain and loads of Partridge Pea are tightly packed into these small refuges.
  2. Master Gardeners OSU Extension Garden – The Master Gardeners work their magic with a huge variety of labeled nectar sources in beds, plus water features.
  3. Linnaeus Teaching Garden – The Butterfly Garden section outside the main garden is a Monarch Magnet with its two big Vitex bushes and other nectar plants. The adjacent Garden Center beds and upper Rose Garden beds have a variety of nectar sources, and roosting Monarchs may be found in the line of Cedar trees between Linnaeus and the Rose Garden.
  4. Crow Creek Meadow– A tiny, easy-to-overlook locale near Brookside, CCM currently has lots of Senna, (Partridge Pea) the host plant for Cloudless Sulphurs in buttery yellow bloom, in addition to Cowpen Daisy and Spanish Gold. Swing by throughout the year to see what is in season!
  5. Krauses’ Family GardenThis property, tucked firmly in Mid-Town at 3727 S. Xanthus, is home to over a dozen species of host and nectar plants, planned to offer home and sustenance throughout the growing season.
  6. Flycatcher Trail– Founded by the Tulsa Audubon Society and in conjunction with Jenks Public Schools, this gorgeous outdoor classroom and demonstration garden hosts a plethora of native plant species and the many pollinators drawn to these hosts and nectar sources.

Complete the Mobile Migration and be entered to win a prize!

Just post a selfie in the comments on the Facebook event page at each of the announced migration stops with the migration poster in the frame. Sunday evening winners will be drawn to receive four passes to the Tulsa Zoo. Winners will be announced on Facebook!

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Sara Dykman

Bicycling with Butterflies – Sara Dykman

Sara Dykman

The TUWC is proud to partner with Magic City Books to host this evening with Sara Dykman.

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Monarch Media Monday 2022

 

Dr. Shaun Michael McCoshum author
Inviting Pollinators and Other Wildlife Into Your Garden

Dr. McCoshum will share insights from his research on Oklahoma’s role in the Monarch Migration, other migratory butterflies and how to make pollinators welcome in your own garden.

Click Here to Participate

 

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Call to action: Support wildlife conservation, oppose HR 8167 

Call to action: Support wildlife conservation, oppose HR 8167

Wildlife conservation is one of the longstanding aims for the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition, so it seemed important to tell our membership about legislation moving through Congress that could have a dramatic impact on those efforts.

House Resolution 8167 would repeal the federal firearms excise tax and dramatically reduce the excise tax on fishing equipment. Laws that enacted these taxes were created at a time when hunters, anglers and conservationists became concerned about dwindling populations of wild game and other species.

Funds raised through these taxes go directly toward wildlife conservation. Since these programs were enacted, species such as deer, elk, wild turkey, various waterfowl and more saw dramatic comebacks.

In Oklahoma, the state’s Department of Wildlife Conservation receives a large portion of its budget from matching federal funds provided by the excise taxes in question.

HR 8167 would replace the excise taxes with revenue raised from federal offshore oil and gas leases. But those funds, by design, would only provide half the funds currently raised by the excise taxes.

HR 8167 is opposed by 43 hunting, conservation and gun rights groups, including the NRA.

What we see is a unified front consisting of hunters, shooting enthusiasts, anglers and conservationists who recognize what we see: The excise tax has been a win-win program for everyone and a longstanding conservation success story.

But HR 8167 has its supporters: 58 co-sponsors, including U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin.

What we would like to ask of TUWC members is to contact your congressional representatives and tell them to scrap HR 8167. If we lose wildlife conservation funds, we will lose wildlife at the places we like to go. Should HR 8167 become law, we will definitely lose funding. A loss of funding will harm wildlife populations and diminish species diversity.

Find out who your congressional representative is and let them know you oppose HR 8167. Write or call their offices in Washington, D.C., or at their local offices here in Oklahoma.

Tulsa-area congressmen are:

Kevin Hern: https://hern.house.gov/

Markwayne Mullin: https://mullin.house.gov/

Frank Lucas: https://lucas.house.gov/

For more, read this editorial from the Tulsa World: https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-firearm-tax-repeal-would-harm-conservation-hunters-interests/article_3d9c62b2-0d1a-11ed-b1c4-2b92166be689.html

Or read this writeup from the Conservation Coalition of Oklahoma: https://oklahomaconservation.org/wildlife-conservation-2/

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July 10 • Turkey Mountain Trail Work Day

 

Join the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition and River Parks Authority on July 10th at the Upper Lot!

We plan to start at 8AM to beat the heat.

Come prepared with water and sturdy shoes.

Our projects for the day include the following:

• Erosion control (trail rebuilding) we will need volunteers with tools for this task.

• Pruning some trails have become overgrown – please bring work gloves and loppers if you have them.

• Trash Pick Up

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