* Action Item ReportingRequired Section 1 of 2
* Answers to the following questions are required.
* Your Action Item Selections (9)Required Section 2 of 2
Action 1:
Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
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.)
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
Biodiversity Survey - Facebook.PNG
542 KB
542 KB
Butterfly Migration - enews.pdf
171.3 KB
171.3 KB
Leave the Leaves - enews.pdf
168.3 KB
168.3 KB
Monarch Blitz - Facebook.PNG
217.5 KB
217.5 KB
monarch migration PDOP - website.PNG
55.9 KB
55.9 KB
Monarch Pledge - Facebook.PNG
524.2 KB
524.2 KB
National Pollinator Week - Facebook.PNG
563.1 KB
563.1 KB
Pesticide Free Pledge.pdf
307.3 KB
307.3 KB
Pesticide-free pledge - Facebook.PNG
520 KB
520 KB
VOPMonarchOrigamiv2.pdf
2.5 MB
2.5 MB
WCWO - website.PNG
48.8 KB
48.8 KB
Monarch side 2.jpg
996.6 KB
996.6 KB
Please describe the methods of public communication below (e.g., printed materials, social media, print media).
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 12:
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Action 22:
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Action 24:
Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
Action 27:
Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
Action 28:
Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
Action 29:
Launch, expand, or continue one or more ordinances to reduce light pollution to benefit urban wildlife.
