SCR605

This concurrent resolution recognizes the monarch butterfly as an important species and encourages South Dakota to support voluntary conservation efforts that protect milkweed plants—the only food source for monarch caterpillars—while allowing agriculture and other land uses to continue. The resolution does not create any new legal requirements or change existing law; instead, it expresses the legislature's support for state agencies and local governments to preserve milkweed on their lands where possible and work cooperatively with private landowners on monarch habitat conservation.