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Pledge Date

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Program Year

2022

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City of Troy

Troy, MI

Ethan Baker

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The Stage Nature Center in Troy, Michigan, is owned by the City of Troy and operated by the Troy Nature Society, is certified as a Monarch Waystation. Every fall we conduct a program to tag and release Monarch Butterflies that is designed to track their location of release/capture and dates. We have the monarch waystation that is certified as such to support monarch habitat. It is basically a garden that is focused on providing plants that support monarch butterflies. This was installed by a girl scout troop several years ago. You can find out more about monarch waystations here: https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/ . Staff also does a monarch tag and release program every September with the public. It is part of a large-scale community science program, that is also coordinated though Monarch Watch, to help understand the dynamics of the monarch’s unique fall migration. We tag and release both wild and reared monarchs (that I have raised at the nature center). Here is more info on monarch tagging: https://monarchwatch.org/tagging/index.html#recoveries Our programs at the Stage Nature Center will continue and we pledge to further enhance these Nature Center specific programs and work city wide toward better policy.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening ▸

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.
Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

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).

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Ethan Baker	2023	4/25/2023		View Pledge
Mayor Ethan Baker	2022	4/27/2022		View Pledge