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* Your Action Item Selections (7)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 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.
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
How many community organizations and groups participated? Please list them below.
Please describe the extent of engagement with these groups and revisions/maintenance implemented for mowing or planting programs.
Action 10:
Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
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 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.
