Mayors' Monarch Pledge
Action Items
2023
Action Items to Achieve Locally
Engage
with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
Maintain
a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods.
Integrate
monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
Direct
city property managers to consider the use of native milkweed and nectar plants at city properties where possible.
Earn
recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts.
2022
Action Items Achieved Locally
Maintained
public communication efforts to encourage monarch gardens
Created
a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation.
Added
or maintained native milkweed and nectar producing plants in community gardens.
2021
Action Items Achieved Locally
Issued
an Earth Day Proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch and the species’ need for habitat.
Engaged
with community garden groups and urges them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Maintained
recognition for being a wild-life friendly city by participating in other habitat conservation efforts (NWF Community Wildlife Habitat Program)
Add
or maintain native milkweed or nectar producing plants in community gardens.
Check out our National Wildlife Federation
Mayors' Monarch Pledge Community Profile here.
