MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — Volunteers from Duke Energy worked with a different kind of plant on Tuesday.
They joined the North Carolina Wildlife Federation and Mecklenburg County Parks and Rec at McDowell Nature Preserve to plant milkweed.
Milkweed can serve as a habitat and food for monarch butterflies.
This is a new partnership to establish wildlife corridors near power transmission lines.
The transmission line corridors can serve as unique habitats for pollinators.
There are only a few trees, and plants can get a lot of direct sunlight.