Our tax dollars, hard at work.

Via The Hill:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced plans Monday to spend $2 million this fiscal year on conservation projects to save the declining monarch butterfly species.

The agency is teaming up with the National Wildlife Federation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore and enhance 200,000 acres of monarch butterfly habitat on private and public land. The population of the North American pollinator has declined by 90 percent since the 1990s, largely due to the destruction of milkweed — the primary food source of monarch caterpillars.

“This isn’t just about our country,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). “It’s about a journey that the monarch butterfly takes often from Canada all the way down to Mexico. And it takes six generations.”