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Craig the Butterflyman. Craig Oveson. Www.CraigtheButterflyman.com

Genesis 2:15-18 New King James Version (NKJV)

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Philippians 4:8 New King James Version (NKJV)

Meditate on These Things

8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things arejust, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseWorthy---meditate on these things

Austin, TX · 

RESUME; Craig The Butterflyman; 

Please view this first 

Texas Representative Tony Dale; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxyIkJge5kU

Resolution on House floor presented and passed during this 84th session. https://www.facebook.com/174842925931442/photos/a.537791622969902.1073741828.174842925931442/818369248245470/?type=1

Texas State Comptroller Taskforce; I attend regular state comptroller task force meetings on threatened and endangered species and advise the board. We have a robust wildlife protection program headed up by 
https://comptroller.texas.gov/p…/species-economy/task-force/

To Whom it may concern; We've spent the last 15 years performing community service and building relationships with elementary school administrators, teachers, and students. We've taken a butterfly sanctuary trailer full of plants and all stages of the life cycle of the Texas state insect, the monarch butterfly, to school campuses and community events. We've had over 35,000 children go through the sanctuary. https://youtu.be/95u8NH2u7iA In many instances we've provided plants for classroom rearing of monarchs for a science project. https://youtu.be/_jtort4ZYVk Bringing nature to the school saves schools the expense of off campus field trips and raising the butterflies in classrooms proves to be a memorable experience for the children. Along with easily available free online study tools including videos and online reading and testing, the https://www.google.com/search…# teacher is able to simply complete the learning process. 

I've been recognized for bringing state agencies and NGOs. together for monarch butterfly conservation The administrators at lady bird Johnson wildfower center Www.wildflower.org 
recognized me for putting them together with Texas Parks and Wildlife and involving them with former First Lady Laura Bushes NGO, Www.TexanbyNature.org
Texan By Nature
www.texanbynature.org
We align the broad interests of conservation groups with business, health care, schools, the scientific community, and faith-based organizations.

https://www.fws.gov/…/Laura-Bush-Brings-Voice-to-Monarch-Co…

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Open Spaces Blog
www.fws.gov
Former First Lady Laura Bush encouraged all Texans to join her in helping save the monarch by planting native milkweed and nectar-producing plants whether over vast ...

Craig,

Thanks so very much for you continued support of the Wildflower Center. We really appreciate your help. Thanks to you, we made that wonderful connection with David Eichler and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. As a result, we were invited to participate in the Texas Monarch and Native Pollinator Conservation Action Plan. Now THAT’S CONSERVATION IN ACTION!

Best wishes,

Karen H. Clary, Ph.D.

Senior Program Manager, Plant Conservation

UT-Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

4801 La Crosse Avenue

Austin, TX 78739

512-232-0160

My greatest accomplishment by far in monarchy has been providing an educational
live butterfly experience, in all stages, to 10 ' s of thousands of Texas
children hopefully to encourage them later in life to support conservation
of the creatures we've been entrusted with;

Planted miles of pollinator habitat. http://www.txwclp.org/…/resident-helps-with-pond-springs-r…/

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/pages/CraigTheButterflyMancom/174842925931442

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plant-Milkweed/343137732539458?ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjIwMjYwMTY0MTg5NTAwNTMiL
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The local Austin PBS channel KLRU produced a short documentary about the monarch butterfly. We were some of the human participates. We were chosen with the recommendation of the federal refuge Balcones Canyonlands administrators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfn9wuvVaDw I use it to introduce myself and it gives me further credibility in the conservation community and schools. ( 6 Minutes;)

We've also taken the mobile butterfly sanctuary to many events including Museum Day at the 
Bob Bullock Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CViWa_3xocE


If you want more information google me; "Craig The Butterflyman" There's a few more articles published about some other community service I've performed. https://www.google.com/search…# 

We have many educational videos online at my youtube channels 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCs7xh1Q-8wfFBlSYNdu2QIA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaB1rMMnxEtKWWgTF9fQQ6g

We also represented the State of Texas in the International tent the last 2 years of "The Texas Outdoor Expo" at TPWD. We were next to the Mexican delegation representing the Biosphere Preserve in the mountains where the monarch overwinters. We taught children about the monarch and its migration. 

We've perfected a simple ecologically and scientifically monitored and approved butterfly hatchery system to demonstrate to citizen scientist how they can protect the stages of monarch butterflies. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EpuoLQBZc48 Citizens can raise butterflies in their backyards and release healthy butterflies to further breed and multiply in the wild. Public gardens such as Riemann gardens at Iowa State University. https://www.reimangardens.com/. has worked to perfect raising techniques. Iowa State biologists have monitored projects and tested to be sure the monarchs being released will be disease free butterflies released to populate their gardens to compliment their live butterfly conservatory

. I also participate with the 20,000 member "The Beautiful Monarch". Facebook group where trained butterfly enthusiasts plant pollinator gardens with varieties of milkweed and nectar plants. Members bring eggs and caterpillars to predator protected clean sanctuaries where they raise and release monarchs into nature. The membership on this group doubled during the 2017 season to the 20,000 members and we expect it to double again this 2018 monarch season. This is already the largest group in the country participating in the conservation and expansion of the monarch butterfly population outnumbering all levels of government organization combined and continually expanding exponentially. "The Beautiful Monarch" Facebook group has turned monarch conservation into a hobby and national pastime.   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2on our communications list. 

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