The Town of Rolesville completed its Mayors' Monarch Pledge for 2025.
This week, the National Wildlife Federation Mayors' Monarch Pledge Team reviewed and approved the Town's steps to preserve monarch butterflies in our area.
Action items that were completed this year include:
- Communications & Convening
- Engaging with 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.
- Engaging with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- Program & Demonstration Gardens
- Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitats.
To read more about Rolesville's Mayors' Monarch Pledge, check out our profile on the National Wildlife Federation website.
About the Mayors' Monarch Pledge
Mayors and other heads of local and tribal government are taking action to help save the monarch butterfly, an iconic species whose eastern populations have declined by 90% and western populations by 99% in recent years.
Through the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge, U.S. cities, municipalities, and other communities are committing to creating habitat for the monarch butterfly and pollinators, and to educating residents about how they can make a difference at home and in their community.