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Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Program Year

2025

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City of Woodstock

Woodstock, IL

Michael Turner

Mayor

Pledge Summary

“Woodstock Illinois is home to approximately 25,000 residents and is located in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. The City is home to 553 acres of parkland including developed parks, natural areas, community gardens and open spaces. Mayor Michael Turner is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators by signing the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge on March 4, 2025. The City of Woodstock, alongside it's residents and environmental ambassadors, vow to continue engaging with our community to encourage pollinator habitat rehabilitation. 2025 marks the fourth year of Woodstock’s commitment.”

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Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening

  • Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
  • 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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
  • Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.