Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Program Year
2025
Achievement
2025
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Community Spotlight
Elm Street Green Meadow
Zionsville has over 700 acres of parkland, most in a natural state with floodplain, forests and restored pollinator meadows such as at Elm Street Green.
New Habitat Restoration at Zionsville Golf Course
In 2023, 2 acres of Zionsville Golf Course rough were restored as a pollinator meadow.
Carpenter Nature Preserve
In 2023 the Zionsville Parks and Recreation Department purchased the 215-acre former Wolf Run Golf Course. The future Carpenter Nature Preserve will feature Eagle Creek floodplain, open forest and prairie habitats.
Action Items Committed for 2025
- 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.
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor John Stehr | 2025 | 2/5/2025 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor John Stehr | 2024 | 1/31/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Emily Styron | 2023 | 1/5/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Emily Styron | 2022 | 2/1/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Emily Styron | 2021 | 12/10/2020 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
