Louis Riverfront Butterfly Byway (Jan 2016) The City received the US Conference of Mayors GRO1000 Gardens & Greenspaces national award to create monarch habitat areas along the St.Map highlighting the City's monarch conservation efforts 2015-2016 (Feb 2017).Fish & Wildlife Service, the City created Monarch Gardens for Schools: A Resource Guide for PreK-12 Urban School Communities (Feb 2017) In partnership with the Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis Zoo, and U.S.The City submitted its final report to the USFWS on urban monarch conservation education, outreach & research programs (Feb 2017).Catherine Werner's presentation on the City's urban monarch conservation efforts at the Smithsonian Institution Wild Cities: The Buzz About Urban Pollinators (June 2017).Louis Butterfly Project efforts (November 2017) American Planning Association magazine article about Milkweeds for Monarchs: The St.Louis Riverfront Butterfly Byway Interpretive Panel (May 2018) Louis Riverfront Butterfly Byway Map (July 2018) Louis Monarch Photo Contest winners (August 2018) For help in creating the Monarch Butterfly Origami, check out this short (4 minute) origami video tutorial created by Landscape Architecture students at Iowa State University (September 2018).Louis Butterfly Project was featured in a New York Times Magazine piece on How to Attract Butterflies (June 2019). [The September 20 MonArch Migration events have photo galleries from previous years). The Great MonArch Migration Event has been held for the past 5 years on National Public Lands Day in partnership with the National Park Service at Gateway Arch National Park. Louis Riverfront Butterfly Byway - a collection of sites totaling a 30-acre pollinator pathway along the Mississippi Riverfront. The Butterfly Byway was completed in the Spring of 2018, and includes interpretive panels at prominent locations. The urban program was expanded in 2015-16 to create 50 school monarch gardens, and then to create a St. The community was challenged to plant an additional 200 monarch gardens to celebrate the City's 250th birthday. Gardens that were then registered appear on the Milkweeds for Monarchs Map. Louis Sustainability Plan. The City led the effort in 2014 by establishing 50 monarch gardens most of these gardens are located at fire houses and City parks. Louis Urban Vitality & Ecology and Biophilic Cities efforts, and advances objectives in the City of St. Milkweeds for Monarchs ( overview document here) aligns with the City of St. Louis Butterfly Project to foster the connection between people and nature where they live, work, learn and play. On Earth Day 2014, former Mayor Francis Slay launched Milkweeds for Monarchs: The St.
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