Join Dr. Ellen Sharp, director of the Butterflies and Their People Project at Cerro Pelon Butterfly Reserve in Mexico, for a fascinating exploration of conservation issues affecting the monarch butterfly’s overwintering grounds in Mexico’s Sierra Madres. Currently, local forest-dwelling peasants depend on illegal logging for income, despite financial incentives paid to them to prevent it. In this talk, Dr. Sharp proposes an alternative model of forest conservation: the employment of full-time rangers. She also discusses the widespread institutional resistance to replacing one-time payments with meaningful work.