Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Program Year

2024

Achievement

2024

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OKC

Oklahoma City, OK

David Holt

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Oklahoma City is committed to monarch conservation efforts. The Oklahoma Zoo, with its mission of conservation, leads our efforts to create and improve habitats for monarchs and other pollinators, both in practice and public education. The Oklahoma City Parks Department plants milkweed gardens throughout the City’s extensive park system and creates waystations that provide resources for monarchs during their migration through Oklahoma City. OKC’s signature park – the 70-acre Scissortail Park in downtown Oklahoma City – plants some of the monarchs’ favorites, such as milkweed and coneflowers, and assists in migration tracking efforts.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2024

Communications and Convening ▸

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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
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.
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
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.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor David Holt	2025	3/14/2025		View Pledge
Mayor David Holt	2024	5/21/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge