Erik Runquist

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In this June 27, 2017 photo, Dakota Skipper butterfly crawls from Erik Runquist's hand on to a coneflower at The Nature Conservancy's Hole-In-The-Mountain Prairie near Lake Benton in southwest Minnesota. He's helping with efforts to reintroduce the Dakota skipper to its old habitats in the southwestern Minnesota prairies. (Mark Steil/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)