Data story 04 ยท Map
Who is helping?
Across the United States, farmers, cities, schools, companies and agencies have reported thousands of projects to create or improve monarch habitat. This map adds them up county by county.
Read it right
Every chart has limits. Here is what this one can tell you, and what it cannot.
What this shows
- Reported habitat projects53,070 efforts covering about 6.5 million acres, reported to the US Monarch Conservation Database from 2014 to 2020.
- Where the work isWhich states and counties reported the most acres.
What it does not show
- Canada and MexicoThis database covers the United States only.
- Unreported projectsReporting is voluntary, so the real total is higher.
- Habitat qualityHow good the habitat is, or whether it lasted.
Sources. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Monarch Conservation Database county summary (public US federal data). Map: Natural Earth. The narrated tour is read by an AI voice (OpenAI gpt-audio, via OpenRouter) from the captions you see. See Data and credits. No endorsement implied.