Keep the Wild Alive - Students Grow New Homes for Rare Butterfly.(Brief Article)

In a project sponsored by NWF's Keep the Wild Alive[ordinal indicator, feminine] campaign, New Hampshire school kids recently planted 100 wild lupines that they grew in their classrooms as part of a habitat restoration program for the endangered Karner blue butterfly.

One of 25 endangered species featured in the Keep the Wild Alive campaign, the Karner blue lays its eggs only on wild blue lupine plants, which also are the exclusive food source for its caterpillars. Fire suppression, development and conversion of land to agricultural use have destroyed many of the pine barrens and oak savannas where the lupine grows. As …