The National Wildlife Federation

Community Profile

Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Monday, March 20, 2023

Program Year

2023

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Town of Phillipsburg

Phillipsburg, NJ

Todd Tersigni

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Phillipsburg is a town of approximately 14,000 located in Warren County, NJ. Once a major transportation hub, it is a concentrated urban setting surrounded by agricultural land that it seeing a dramatic uptick in development. Phillipsburg Mayor Todd Tersigni has committed to saving the monarch butterfly & other pollinators by signing the Mayors' Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in creating more pollinator habitat throughout the town.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2023

Communications and Convening

  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
  • Issue a Proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • 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).
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in community gardens.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.