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Action 3:
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
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 13:
Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
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).
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
What program was launched or maintained to complete this effort? If you are involved with another National Wildlife Federation program, please mention that below. (Please include a link to the program, if possible)
How many schools, community groups, leaders, or centers were engaged in this effort? How many of these collaborations and partnerships are "new"?
Please list the names of the schools you are working with.
What resources, if any, are you providing to educators?
How many students and educators would you estimate are being reached? Please limit your answer to only number of adults and youths engaged in the answer field (e.g., 200 students and 20 educators).
What community organizations, groups, or leaders (if any) did you partner with or engage to complete this effort?
How many acres of monarch and pollinator habitat have been planted through this effort? Please limit your answer to only the number of acres in the answer field below (e.g., 0.5 acres). For reference, 1 acre = 43,560 square feet and is about the size of a football field without the end zones.
What is the maintenance schedule to ensure planted habitat is maintained?
Action 16:
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).
Action 18:
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Action 19:
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Action 20:
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Action 22:
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.