Ole Schell remembers seeing giant clusters of monarchs in a eucalyptus grove on his family’s ranch in Bolinas. As a child, he said, “It used to be you could shake a tree and thousands would come off.” But in recent years, Mr. Schell has found only two or three monarchs in an entire season. He

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