Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Friday, March 8, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
Links and Uploads
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Community Spotlight
2022 Mayors' Monarch Pledge Proclamation Day
Chip Roscom, chair of Trenton Parks & Rec, reads the proclamation
Milkweed Propagation Workshop Fall 2022
Maine Master Naturalist Cyrene Slegona explains how to propagate milkweed
Action Items Committed for 2024
- 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.)
- Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- 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).
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chair, Board of Selectmen R. Frederick Ehrlenbach | 2024 | 3/8/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Chairman, Board of Selectmen R. Frederick Ehrlenbach | 2023 | 2/3/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Chairman, Board of Selectmen R. Frederick Ehrlenbach | 2022 | 3/31/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
