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Action 1:
Issue a Proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat.
Action 2:
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Action 3:
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Action 4:
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.
Action 5:
Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
Action 8:
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
Action 12:
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Action 13:
Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
Action 14:
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants in medians and public rights-of-way.
Action 15:
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
What program was launched or maintained to complete this effort? If you are involved with another National Wildlife Federation program, please mention that below. (Please include a link to the program, if possible)
How many schools, community groups, leaders, or centers were engaged in this effort? How many of these collaborations and partnerships are "new"?
Please list the names of the schools you are working with.
What resources, if any, are you providing to educators?
How many students and educators would you estimate are being reached? Please limit your answer to only number of adults and youths engaged in the answer field (e.g., 200 students and 20 educators).
What community organizations, groups, or leaders (if any) did you partner with or engage to complete this effort?
How many acres of monarch and pollinator habitat have been planted through this effort? Please limit your answer to only the number of acres in the answer field below (e.g., 0.5 acres). For reference, 1 acre = 43,560 square feet and is about the size of a football field without the end zones.
What is the maintenance schedule to ensure planted habitat is maintained?
Action 16:
Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).
Action 18:
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Action 19:
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in community gardens.
Action 21:
Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Action 22:
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Action 23:
Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).
Action 24:
Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
Action 25:
Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
Action 26:
Direct city property managers to consider the use of native milkweed and nectar plants at city properties where possible.
Action 28:
Change ordinances so herbicides, insecticides, or other chemicals used in the community are not harmful to pollinators.
Action 29:
Adopt ordinances that support reducing light pollution.
