Hi Sam, this is such a wonderful piece. Thanks for sharing the dispatch. It's amazing to see "assisted migration" in action.
Reading your story, I thought of this wonderful essay by David Abram in Emergence Magazine. The migratory magic of the monarch butterfly is featured here:
"Four generations removed from those who last journeyed south, they will wing their way over mountains and spreading suburbs and dammed-up rivers, roosting in maples and pines, only to push south afresh the next morning, ultimately zeroing in on the very same few acres of conifers in the Mexican highlands—perhaps even the very same tree—to cluster with a hundred million other monarchs through the winter.... How does an organism inherit such intricate instructions—precise navigational guidance that must be different for each successive generation?"
So amazing
Hi Sam, this is such a wonderful piece. Thanks for sharing the dispatch. It's amazing to see "assisted migration" in action.
Reading your story, I thought of this wonderful essay by David Abram in Emergence Magazine. The migratory magic of the monarch butterfly is featured here:
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creaturely-migrations-breathing-planet/
"Four generations removed from those who last journeyed south, they will wing their way over mountains and spreading suburbs and dammed-up rivers, roosting in maples and pines, only to push south afresh the next morning, ultimately zeroing in on the very same few acres of conifers in the Mexican highlands—perhaps even the very same tree—to cluster with a hundred million other monarchs through the winter.... How does an organism inherit such intricate instructions—precise navigational guidance that must be different for each successive generation?"
Such a wonderful project.