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Looking Backward -- 2019

amshapiro — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:29:06 +0000

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Meet the scientist who’s been counting California butterflies for 47 years and has no plans to stop

amshapiro — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:37:22 +0000

This article appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 12, 2019, and was written by Deborah Netburn.

Here's the link: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-11-12/california-butterflies-scientist-art-shapiro

Looking Backward -- 2018

amshapiro — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:59:58 +0000

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Looking Backward -- 2017

amshapiro — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:12:57 +0000

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LOOKING BACKWARD -- 2016

amshapiro — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 19:56:17 +0000

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Looking Backward -- 2015

amshapiro — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:05:04 +0000

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Looking Backward -- 2014

amshapiro — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:46:54 +0000

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SEPTEMBER SONG, 2013

amshapiro — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:03:25 +0000

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Donner Summit Historical Society Newsletter featuring Butterflies

dwaetjen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:37:54 +0000

This issue of the of the Donner Summit Historical Society Newsletter features Art's butterfly study, and focuses on the Donner Pass collection site.

‘Butterfly man’ finds clues to climate change

dwaetjen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:32:00 +0000

In a functional classroom in a functional building on the UC Davis campus, Arthur Shapiro sits unassumingly in the corner. Rumpled, wearing well-worn Converse All Star tennis shoes, old jeans and a faded, zippered green hoodie, Shapiro could be just another student, except for his weathered face and bushy gray beard.

In fact, Shapiro happens to be one of the world’s leading butterfly experts, a “biodiversity guru,” as one of the students in the class puts it, or “a walking encyclopedia,” says another—and, as it happens, the mastermind behind one of the United States’ leading indicators of a changing climate as well as a changing landscape.

Read the rest of the story at newsreview.com:
http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1944090