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Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Program Year

2025

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City of Adel

Adel, IA

Jim Peters

Mayor

Pledge Summary

We have completed butterfly gardens in our dog park. We want to continue to plant and maintain monarch friendly plantings in our road boulevards and right of ways.

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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 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.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.

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.