Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Monday, January 6, 2025
Program Year
2025
Achievement
2025
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Community Spotlight
The Butterfly Garden Educational Signs
The Garden Club of Rogers installed educational signage at the Butterfly Garden in 2022. Creating an outdoor classroom for all ages in the heart of Downtown Rogers.
Action Items Committed for 2025
- 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.
- Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
- 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 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.
- Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- 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.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Greg Hines | 2025 | 1/6/2025 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Greg Hines | 2024 | 3/8/2024 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Greg Hines | 2023 | 3/30/2023 | Signatories | View Pledge |
