After a severe winter storm in mid-January 2002, in the mountains of central Mexico, dead monarch butterflies lay in piles on the ground, in some places more than a foot high. Between 220 and 270 million frozen butterflies had rained down from roosts where they normally festooned towering trees. "The human family is as utterly dependent upon our environment as the monarch butterfly. Habitat fragmentation and ecosystem collapse is an equal opportunity killer. If humans continue to view themselves as above rather than co-dependent with ecology, we too are doomed to become an endangered biological phenomenon." FOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY - Tragedy Hits Fragmented Monarch Butterfly Habitat *********************************************** Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc. http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal http://forests.org/web/ -- Discuss Forest Conservation