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American Airlines employees create butterfly way station

The maintenance facility garden is a little more than 20 feet wide and over 80 feet long, turning 2,000 square feet of previously brush-hogged grassy area into a MonarchWatch-certified Monarch Waystation. Sustainable Tulsa, through the Monarch Initiative of Tulsa and other programs, has worked with companies and provided information for individuals to aid monarchs through backyard efforts, said Executive Director Corey Wren Williams. "Businesses, especially those that have a little extra green space, can create these outdoor areas that employees enjoy, that are beautiful and also productive for the butterflies and other pollinators that need them," she said. A chaste tree, a purple flowering tree that may grow 15 feet high and around, is the centerpiece of the American Airlines garden, which features a variety of milkweeds, purple coneflower, yellow black-eyed Susan, red-and-yellow blanket flower, purple prairie verbena, 2-foot-tall pink spikes of blazing star and the stone walkway, which forms a blue and red AA. Carla Grogg said the native-plant themed garden is ideal for the more remote location and one of several her greenhouse has helped with during the past year or two, including at Bama Co., ONE Gas, and the Bixby Parks and Recreation Department. A Monarch Waystation is an officially recognized plot that is planted under guidelines issued by MonarchWatch, a nonprofit conservation organization that works to research and aid monarch populations that have severely declined in recent years.

 

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