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Summary for 2024

Summary for 2024

Cape May Point is unique among Jersey Shore communities for its natural environment, many trees, and wildlife-friendly gardens. Our quiet residential streets are used more for walking and biking than for motor vehicles. Because of our location along the Atlantic Flyway, Cape May Point is a major rest stop for birds and butterflies migrating north in the spring and south in the fall. Visitors from around the world come here to view wildlife migration.

Summary for 2024

Located in the heart of the growing Dallas-Fort Worth region, the City of Irving is home to 239,798 residents and 8,500 local and international companies. Irving's Think Green...Be Green program offers residents and businesses the resources and opportunities to learn about sustainability and environmental topics. Irving Mayor Rick Stopfer is supportive of the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge and is looking forward to creating a more pollinatorfriendly community.

Summary for 2024

Hot Springs is the most popular tourist destination in the state of Arkansas with nearly 7 million annual visitors. It is located just southwest of the state capital of Arkansas with a population of more than 38,000 residents. As a part of the Natural State, the city of Hot Springs is nestled alongside Hot Springs National Park, also known as the first U.S. National Reservation, as well as the Ouachita National Forest and two state parks. It is surrounded by three man-made lakes, one of which is the largest lake in the state and also consistently ranked one of the cleanest lakes in the nation. In addition to the state/federal attractions, the City of Hot Springs boasts of having 22 parks within and surrounding the city limits, along with the Hot Springs Creek Greenway Trail. Between all these entities, Hot Springs has more than 100 miles of hiking/walking trails. In an effort to bring awareness to pollinators, the City of Hot Springs partners with community groups such as the Master Gardeners and Arkansas Master Naturalists, Diamond Lakes Division (DLAMN) to host a variety of presentations and educational events at pollinator areas on city-owned parks and trails. This includes the popular Monarch Butterfly releases held at the Monarch Butterfly Garden on the Hot Springs Creek Greenway Trail, which was created with the help of DLAMN. By signing the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge, Hot Springs Mayor Pat McCabe has committed to continue to save the monarch butterfly and other pollinators and looks forward to engaging residents in pollinator education and building more pollinator habitats throughout the city.

Summary for 2024

Toms River Township is a large town in Coastal New Jersey that nearly 100,000 people call home. We have a unique mix of natural conditions, from sandy beachfront areas to heavily forested cover, wetlands to farmlands, preserved open space to dense residential areas. Each year, we continue to make great strides in water conservation, preserving open space, clean recreation on the water, and so much more. Last year, we achieved our signatory status and created our showpiece pollinator garden at one of our beaches to provide habitat for monarchs and more. We look forward to the installation of Phase II of that garden, and more initiatives throughout the year. I support the National Wildlife Federation and its community engagement initiatives, and we look forward to continuing the work to ensure pollinators, and especially Monarchs, are thriving for years to come.

Summary for 2024

Durant is a city located uniquely in the corner of Cedar, Muscatine and Scott counties in Eastern Iowa. Durant has a population of roughly 1870 citizens and is home to Feldhan Park as well as other beautiful and vibrant community parks and gardens. Mayor, Council and City staff are committed to saving the Monarch butterfly as well as other pollinators with their signing of the Mayors' Monarch Pledge. The City looks forward to engaging and educating our residents in building more pollinator areas within our Storm Water Urban Conservation Project and other areas throughout of our city.

Summary for 2024

Cape May (sometimes Cape May City) is a city and seaside resort located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, it is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations.

Summary for 2024

Leander is a growing city of about 100,000 residents on the edge of the Texas Hill Country. Given our location in the eastern monarch migration route, we are in a great place to help support the butterfly. Our participation enhances efforts to engage with residents in our work in water conservation and city beautification through promotion of drought tolerant landscaping with native Texas Plants. Many of these plants are also useful to monarchs and other pollinators.

Summary for 2024

New Britain Borough is a small borough of 8,000 residents in central Bucks County. We are a PA Bird Town, a Tree City USA, and a National Wildlife Federation Community Wildlife Habitat. As a community, we have demonstrated a long-time commitment to providing habitat for birds, pollinators, and other wildlife through the planting of hundreds of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials in our public spaces, including the Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve, which has been recognized at both the local and state level for the habitat restoration work we have done there. Participating in the Mayors Monarch Pledge initiative is a natural extension of the work our community has long been engaged in.

Summary for 2024

We removed all of the non-native plants in our parks in 2021 and 2022 and replaced them all with native species. We have two registered monarch way stations with Monarch Watch. We also recently passed an ordinance and set up a program for people to have mow-less May, pollinator lawn spaces, and native prairie lawn spaces without getting fines for tall grass/weeds.