
Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Friday, February 2, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement

2024
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Protecting and Restoring Ann Arbor's Natural Areas
The Natural Area Preservation (NAP) program protects and restores Ann Arbor's natural areas by carrying out ecological restoration projects throughout Ann Arbor's parks.
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Adopt-A-Park
The Adopt-A-Park program promotes long-term partnerships between residents and city government to maintain and beautify Ann Arbor's parks. Volunteers plant and care for native garden beds, among other maintenance projects.
Learn MoreAction 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.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- 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.
- 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.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Launch, expand, or continue one or more ordinances to reduce light pollution to benefit urban wildlife.
Past Pledge Archive
Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
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Mayor Christopher Taylor | 2025 | 1/17/2025 | View Pledge | |
Mayor Christopher Taylor | 2024 | 2/2/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Christopher Taylor | 2023 | 1/12/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Christopher Taylor | 2022 | 1/25/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
Mayor Christopher Taylor | 2021 | 1/5/2021 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |