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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.)
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 11:
Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
Action 12:
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Action 19:
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Action 22:
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
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.
Action 28:
Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
