I've been living in the Grover Beach area for ~4 years, but visiting the monarch grove for about 15. This year has been _one_ of the better so far. With the milkweed I planted at the house I bought this year here, and milkweed I've seen my neighbors planting, I hope to continue to the uprise of their proliferation. That being said, my parents reported that in the 80s, there were about 2000x more of them than even now, so...