City of Lake Worth Beach
Lake Worth Beach, FL
Betty Resch
Summary for 2022
Lake Worth Beach is a city located along the Atlantic Ocean and has an active community interested in environmentalism. We are proud to support Monarch butterflies and look forward to engaging our residents through activities that will raise awareness about how to create a healthy and sustainable habitat for the Monarchs. Lake Worth Beach is committed to leading by example and will be planting butterfly gardens on city owned property.
City of Riverside
Riverside, CA
Patricia Lock Dawson
Summary for 2022
The City of Riverside has a proud history of promoting healthy living spaces including native plants and fostering areas of growth for natural habitats for insects and wild life. With a population of roughly 326,000, the city is home to the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, the beautiful Santa Ana River and UCR Botanical Gardens. Mayor Lock Dawson of has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with their signing of the Mayors' Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city. This year, we plan on planting a community garden here at City Hall for native, nectar producing plants to increase the population of monarchs in our city.
City of Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach, FL
Ellen Glasser
Summary for 2022
The City of Atlantic Beach is small city located on a barrier island in Northeastern Florida’s Duval County. The city consists of 13 square miles of which just 27 percent is land with the remainder water. Approximately 14,000 residents make their homes in between the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Tidal Marsh to the west. The city is actively engaged in sustainability and resilience programs which seek to preserve the natural beauty of our community and to protect our natural resources for the generations to come. The Mayor’s Monarch Pledge will provide the community with a highly visible and significant program to educate and involve its citizens in a noble endeavor to saving monarch butterfly habitats as well as promoting interests in similar programs.
Borough of Point Pleasant Beach
Borough of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Paul Kanitra
Summary for 2022
The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach is a well known coastal community of 4,500 residents on the Jersey Shore. Mayor Paul M. Kanitra has pledged to help save the Monarch Butterfly and other pollinators!
Hudson NH
Hudson, NH
Brett Gagnon
Summary for 2022
The town of Hudson is on the southern boarder of New Hampshire. We have a balance of commercial business along with residential areas which are scattered throughout the rolling hillsides. We take great pride in our various town forests as well as our town gem; Benson's Park. Over the years, conservation efforts have increasingly become more popular with residents as a need to balance the growth of business expansion and as such this pledge aligns with our current and future goals. Hudson town leaders, which range from the Select Board, to the conservation commission and the sustainability committee all agree that protecting pollinators is of the utmost importance to our way of life, our regions natural beauty and the ability to keep our local farms alive.
City of Westland
Westland, MI
William Wild
Summary for 2022
The City of Westland has created the vision of Mission Green. With the goal of the program to continue to educate residents on the importance of sustaining our planet. With help from the local community we have had the opportunity to install butterfly gardens that are maintained by community volunteers. These community volunteers have been able to educate the residents on the monarch butterfly and the importance of pollination conservation.
City of Highland Park
HIGHLAND PARK, IL
Nancy R. Rotering
Summary for 2022
Highland Park is a small city on the shores of Lake Michigan 25 miles north of Chicago. With towering lake bluffs, secluded ravines, and wooded lots, the city has always had a special relationship with nature and the character of the city is defined by large old oaks and hickories. Mayor Rotering has committed to increasing pollinator habitat by removing invasive species such as buckthorn from public land and replacing it with native perennials, shrubs, and trees.
Cary
Cary, NC
Harold Weinbrecht
Summary for 2022
The Town of Cary is a thriving, diverse community in North Carolina’s renowned Research Triangle Region. It has been ranked one of the best small cities in America, top 20 safest cities in America, and one of the best places to live in the country. In addition to being known for the many local universities and for being a technology hub, the Town of Cary is also known for being a beautiful and sustainable community. It boasts an extensive greenway trail network of more than 80 miles of natural settings for walking, jogging and bicycling and it has a long history of environmental stewardship programming. Some of the many offerings include Stevens Nature Center Educational Programming, environmental outreach programs, water conservation programs, and solid waste reduction efforts. The Mayor's Monarch Pledge is managed in cooperation with our Wildlife Habitat program, dubbed the Cary Garden for Wildlife Program. Partnerships like these reinforce the Town’s strong commitments to environmental stewardship and a healthy community.
City of Boise
Boise, ID
Lauren McLean
Summary for 2022
The City of Boise is the capital of Idaho, located in the southwest area of the state, with about 230,000 residents. The city is known for its easy access to a wide variety of recreational opportunities, from biking along the Boise River Greenbelt to hiking in the nearby foothills to skiing at Bogus Basin. Mayor McLean has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with her signing of the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge and looks forward to continuing the work of creating a clean and healthy city for everyone.
Town of Black Mountain
Black Mountain , NC
Larry Harris
Summary for 2022
Town of Black Mountain - Monarch Conservation Actions – 2021 - Engaged with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants at the Dr. Wilson Community Garden - Maintained native milkweed and nectar producing plants in public community gardens at the Dr. Wilson Community Garden under the leadership of Dianna McCall. Numerous gardeners have milkweed, tithonia, zinnia, etc. in their personal plots and there are common areas that have over 50 common milkweed plants and native wildflowers. - Engaged with city parks and recreation and public works to revise and maintain mowing programs around the monarch lifecycle in areas with milkweed, which include 10 acres of the field/disk golf course at Veterans Park with over 300 common milkweed plants. - Planted and maintained a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at the Black Mountain Public Library. We now have 4 locations on town property that are maintained as pollinator gardens or meadow totaling over 1 acre. In addition to the 500 sq ft garden at the library, these include a 400 foot long strip section along Village Greenway, a ¾ acre meadow at Veterans park, and a 1,000 sq ft slope meadow at Lake Tomahawk. - Worked with the local schools to plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants in public right of way in median along Village Way, between Primary and Elementary school on the section adjacent to the Black Mountain Greenway. Black Mountain Elementary students are growing flowers from seed to be added to the garden in 2022. - Initiated and supported community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health by conducting a monarch monitoring program through the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project. Over 10 volunteers helped to count monarch caterpillars in both spring and fall of 2021. - Displayed educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat at our Monarch waystations at Lake Tomohawk and Veterans Park. We will be working on new signage in 2022. - Pollinator Garden Coordinator, Emily Sampson held two educational public events (spring and fall) that focused on understanding the monarch lifecycle, the importance of pollinator conservation, and included discussion of how to create pollinator spaces on both public and private property.
