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Karner Blue Butterfly Gets New Habitat
A rare seven-acre stretch of sandy pine barrens in Concord, New Hampshire — the last known habitat for the state’s endangered Karner blue butterfly — is being acquired by the Department of Fish and Game for $575,000. This critical land, essential for wild lupines and the butterflies’ survival, will expand protected habitat not just for the blue-winged insect, but for over two dozen other at-risk species. Once thought extinct in New Hampshire by 1999, the Karner blue has rebounded thanks to a decades-long captive-rearing and release program. Still federally endangered, the butterfly remains…
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