Mayors' Monarch Pledge Reporting

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Answers to the following questions are required.

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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 12:

Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
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 Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Action 18:

Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
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.