The Monarch Joint Venture is excited to welcome Swallowtail as the newest member of the MJV partnership.
Based in St. Louis and Kansas City, Swallowtail has been restoring ecosystems in Missouri and Kansas for the past 20 years, creating roughly 3,000 acres of wetland and stream mitigation banks that include restored prairies, wetlands, forests, and streams. This restoration benefits numerous species, including monarchs and other pollinators.
In its prairie restoration work, Swallowtail plants a diverse array of pollinator plants, including milkweed, the monarch butterfly’s host plant. By joining the MJV partnership, Swallowtail hopes to intensify its focus on pollinator habitat and gain guidance to increase the number of pollinator species on its projects and continue improving the conservation value of the land it restores and manages.
At the same time, Swallowtail will bring 20 years of lessons learned to the partnership, including in real estate matters, environmental regulations, and on-the-ground restoration. Swallowtail also provides vegetation management services for solar power facilities to improve pollinator habitat on the landscape in these areas, as well as services like invasive species removal, Clean Water Act permitting, and more.
The core of the Swallowtail business is creating and maintaining ecosystems, including prairies, and MJV is happy to welcome their efforts and expertise into the MJV partnership.
For more information about Swallowtail, please visit https://www.swallowtailenvironmental.com/.
The Monarch Joint Venture is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and a national partner network of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, businesses, and academic programs working together to conserve the monarch butterfly migration. The content in this article does not necessarily reflect the positions of all Monarch Joint Venture partners. Photo courtesy of Swallowtail.