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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Program Year

2022

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, UT

Erin Mendenhall

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah situated between the Wasatch Mountains to the East and the Oquirrh Mountains to the West. The Public Lands department works to create and protect wildlife habitats by increasing biodiversity throughout parks and natural areas around the city. With help from community members, Salt Lake City has made huge strides in protecting pollinators like the monarch butterfly. Fairmont Stream is the site of a Certified Monarch Waystation after a series of pollinator friendly plantings. Expansion of this pollinator habitat is expected to be completed in 2022. Another successful project is the riparian habitat improvements at the Three Creeks Confluence, which will be expanded in 2022, as well. Salt Lake City understands the significance of prioritizing pollinator expansion and currently has multiple projects in the works to achieve this, including the Cornell Wetland Restoration Project. Mayor Mendenhall is committed to saving pollinators like the monarch and is looking forward to positive change with the Mayor's Monarch Pledge.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2022

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.
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

Systems Change ▸

Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Erin Mendenhall	2022	3/24/2022		View Pledge