ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A special meadow will soon be planted in the Rio Grande Bosque in Albuquerque to help attract pollinators such as butterflies. The city's Parks and Recreation Department/Open Space Division (OSD), Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD), Institute for Applied Ecology, and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps are looking for volunteers to help plant the meadow on Saturday, Sept. 28 near Campbell Road NW and Candelaria Road NW. Story continues below Investigation: APD lieutenant named in DWI scandal accused of abusing child in 2016 Traffic: I-25 construction zone in Albuquerque sees 22 crashes in 34 days News: Two guns found in student’s possession at Volcano Vista High School Community: Albuquerque International Sunport offers community a ‘taste’ of what’s to come “This site in the North Valley immediately came to mind as the perfect location for this,” said MRGCD Planner Yasmeen Najmi in a news release. “I regularly walk the trail and recognized that with its lush grass meadows and native milkweeds, this would be the perfect launchpad to expand monarch butterfly habitat.”Crews and volunteers will plant 1,500 “plugs” with native perennial plants that are beneficial to monarch butterflies and other pollinators. The plugs have been grown from wild-collected seeds. As these plants mature, OSD plans to harvest wild seeds for further propagation and to start a seed bank.This planting is part of the broader “River for Monarchs” project, which aims to restore 16 habitat patches that will act as “stepping stones” for a diverse suite of pollinators along the Rio Grande corridor in New Mexico between the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge up to the Taos area, according to the news release from the city.“Climate change and other human-caused habitat loss threatens the survival of the monarch butterfly – one of Earth’s most beautiful species,” Parks & Recreation Department Director Dave Simon said in the news release. “Butterflies, other pollinators, and birds need our help. This new butterfly habitat will be vital and could influence future bosque restoration.”Volunteers may choose from two shifts on Sept. 28: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. or noon to 2 p.m. Those interested can learn more and sign up here.