Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Community Spotlight
Mayor Jacobsen
Mayor Jacobsen "planting" our Monarch Waystation sign at Nibley's pollinator garden, Firefly Park.
Sign at Firefly Park
Nibley adopted a "Dark Sky" ordinance to protect our natural firefly population and other nocturnal wildlife.
Fall Planting
Fall planting in the butterfly-shaped pollinator garden in Nibley. The Cache Valley Wildlife Association monitors and maintains the garden during the summer months.
Action Items Committed for 2024
- Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- 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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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.)
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator 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.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
- 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).
- 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).
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
- Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Larry Jacobsen | 2025 | 1/3/2025 | View Pledge | |
| Mayor Larry Jacobsen | 2024 | 12/3/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Larry Jacobsen | 2023 | 12/8/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Larry Jacobsen | 2022 | 2/17/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
