Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Program Year
2025
Achievement
2025
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Action Items Committed for 2025
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Mayor Michael Johnston | 2025 | 2/20/2025 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor of Denver Colorado Mike Johnston | 2024 | 3/1/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor of Denver Colorado Michael Hancock | 2023 | 1/11/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor of Denver Colorado Michael Hancock | 2022 | 3/14/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Michael Hancock | 2021 | 3/12/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
