The weeding crew works in four rows of milkweed plants at the MDC's George O. White State Forest Nursery near Licking. The faciliy normally grows only trees seedlings, but it growing milkweed because it attracts monarch butterflies, whose numbers have dipped drastically in Missouri and around the U.S.

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