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Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2025

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City of Boise

Boise, ID

Lauren McLean

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Boise is the capital of Idaho, known for its outdoor recreation opportunities, vibrant arts scene, and growing tech sector. It boasts a mild climate, beautiful parks, and a thriving downtown area. Commitment to the Monarch Pledge: Boise recognizes the critical role of pollinators like monarchs in maintaining healthy ecosystems. We are committed to supporting initiatives that protect and restore monarch habitat, such as: Creating and maintaining pollinator-friendly gardens and green spaces throughout the city. Educating the public about the importance of monarchs and how to support their conservation. Working with local organizations to implement pollinator-friendly practices in agriculture and landscaping.

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Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

  • 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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
  • 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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • 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).
  • 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.

Systems Change ▸

  • Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.
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