Catalina Trail is a Mexican-born naturalist and social worker.
10 Facts About Catalina Trail
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Catalina Trail is noted for discovering, with her then-husband Kenneth C Brugger, the location of the overwintering sites of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
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Catalina Trail was born in 1949 on a ranch in the mountains near El Salto, in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
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Catalina Trail loved adventure, exploring Mexico, Canada, the United States and Central America alone or with friends.
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Brugger convinced Trail to join him in the search, and for several years they roamed the country on weekends in his Winnebago, searching for the monarchs.
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The magazine cover featured a picture of Catalina Trail covered in butterflies.
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Catalina Trail returned to the roosting site in February 2012 as the guest of the filmmakers.
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Catalina Trail attended Austin Community College and later the University of Texas at Austin, earning a degree in social work in 1996.
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Catalina Trail worked as a case manager for an Austin nonprofit organization until her retirement.
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Catalina Trail now tends her garden and occasionally appears at events promoting the conservation of monarchs and other pollinating insects.