Nature Notebook

Through the culmination of 30 years of hard work from many partners, the day finally came last week to release a group of captive-reared Mitchell’s Satyr Butterflies in Sarett’s fen habitat!

This species of butterfly is so rare that the only populations exist in a small number of areas here in southern Michigan and northern Indiana, and Sarett is one of them. Once more common, nearly all the prairie fen wetlands they need for survival have been destroyed by pollution, drainage, lack of fire, and other human-caused factors. They can’t live anywhere else, so their survival is reliant on this intervention.

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