Reviving a butterfly in the forest (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

*Reviving a butterfly in the forest*

Posted 08/16/2013

by - Jennifer Gibbins <editor at thecordovatimes.com>

Imagine looking out across the sky and seeing endless swarms of gorgeous
butterflies, thick as falling snow. Each delicately attuned to the woods or
fields or marshes of its short life.

Today, swarms of butterflies thick as snow are rare. In addition to their
decline in numbers around the world, diversity among their species is
plummeting. It may seem inconsequential, but beyond being part of the
beauty and identity of a particular landscape, butterflies are tiny
indicators of the health of everything around them, from climate to insects
to mammals, even people.

This is the image in my mind when talking this past weekend with Dr.
Michael Krauss, former president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous
Languages of the Americas and Director of Alaska Native Language Center at
the University of Fairbanks.

Krauss, age 79, was in Cordova for the first time in about twenty years for
the third annual Eyak Language Workshop attended by Eyak descendants from
Cordova and those now living throughout Alaska and the lower 48 as part of
an effort to restore Eyak to a living language.

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