Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2025

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City of Lafayette

Lafayette, CO

JD Mangat

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Lafayette is dedicated to safeguarding the vital role of native pollinators in our ecosystem, with a special focus on the conservation of monarch butterflies. Through education initiatives, habitat restoration projects, and long-term preservation efforts, we aim to create a thriving environment where pollinators can flourish. By engaging the community, enhancing green spaces, and supporting sustainable practices, Lafayette is building a legacy of stewardship and biodiversity that ensures a bright future for pollinators and the ecosystems they support.

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Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening

  • 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 Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing 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.
  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).
  • 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.
  • Launch, expand, or continue one or more ordinances to reduce light pollution to benefit urban wildlife.