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MONARCHS TAKE MANHATTAN: Monarch Watch and Chip Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, were noted in a recent New York Times article. The piece focused on Taylor's predictions of trouble for migrating butterflies due to drought conditions in southern states. "Taylor has already halved his prediction for the size of the winter roosts in central Mexico, to 14 acres from 30," the article says.

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