I recently saw a TV news story about a nearly extinct species of butterfly here in the LA area, down to just a very, very small patch of land and numbering in less than a couple of dozen population; it brought to mind how I had noticed the remarkable lack of once plentiful Monarch butterflies in California; they, too are facing decimation and are rarely seen nowadays; it wasn't always like that and as evidence, (and for Eichhörnchen), here is a link to a sit that archives the programs aired on the PBS stations in CA, created by a man named Huell Howser, who, in the days before YT, would make short films highlighting some of the little known and/or more colorful places, people, and things in CA...
This is a teaser YT video posted by the local college that archives and curates Howser's videos:
Howser's videos used to be all on YT, but college controlling the material chose to only allow access via their website (a shame, since it limits availability); this is a link to the webpage with the full 25 minute video:
Monarchs – California’s Gold (2012)
https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-hows...ias-gold-2012/
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