Providing habitat for monarchs is the biggest way to support monarch butterfly populations, said Emilie Snell-Rood, a University of Minnesota professor who studies them.
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The butterflies tagged Thursday will eventually migrate to Mexico as part of their winter migration. Once there, others will catch them and check their tags, providing data to help save the species.