Community Profile

Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Program Year

2023

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Village of Yellow Springs

Yellow Springs, OH

Pam Conine

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The Village of Yellow Springs, Ohio--population 3700 plus--is located in SW Ohio. Home of Antioch College, we are 20 minutes east of Dayton and a quick hour west of Columbus. Glen Helen, a 1000 acre nature preserve with over 21 miles of hiking trails along with creeks and waterways that feed into the Little Miami Scenic River, runs the length of the village and connects to the Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve and John Bryan State Park. Yellow Springs has a Wildlife Habitat Community public Facebook page with 514 members.--check us out! Many villagers are re-wilding their properties under the leadership of our village Environmental Commission and over 108 NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat signs dot village yards. Mayor Pam is happy to add the Mayors' Monarch Pledge to our village efforts in support of increasing habitats for monarchs and other pollinators.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2023

Communications and Convening ▸

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.
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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

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).
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change ▸

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.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Pam Conine	2023	2/1/2023		View Pledge
Mayor Pam Conine	2022	2/23/2022	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Pam Conine	2021	2/22/2021	Signatories	View Pledge

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