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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.
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 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.
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
What is the total acreage of land treated to remove invasive plants?
Please describe the extent of revisions or maintenance to invasive species removal programs, as well as the practices or techniques used to remove the invasive plants.
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 26:
Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
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.
