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Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Program Year

2025

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Lorain

Lorain, OH

Jack Bradley

Mayor

Pledge Summary

City of Lorain is a Lake Erie lakefront community of roughly 65,000 citizens. Since 2019, a concerned group of local volunteers has been actively working to create a "pollinator friendly" environment for monarchs and other pollinators. Lorain's "Butterfly Committee" has successfully created 14 native gardens throughout the City of Lorain to-date. We are on the monarch migration path, their first stop across Lake Erie from Canada, making Lorain an ideal refueling station for monarchs and other migratory pollinators. We pledge to continue our efforts to increase awareness of the plight of the monarch and to encourage residents within our community to join us in making Lorain a welcoming pollinator habitat.

Community Spotlight

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Our Pollinator activists

On October 10, 2024, we held the "Save the Pollinators Celebration" at the newly constructed Willow Park Pollinator Meadow. This was the community's first chance to view the garden and witness its beauty! We had an incredible turnout!

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening

  • 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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • 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).