Yes! We are the source of the MONARCH CITY USA street signs and registration!
And the promise of helping you and your community with your first MONARCH FESTIVAL, for free.
Founder Russ Stubbles and his wife, Beverly, with their grandson.
MONARCH CITY USA was created in 2015 in Maple Valley, Washington! We are a non-profit corporation under Washington state Department of Revenue. We strongly encourage America’s 19,000+ municipalities to directly help the monarch butterfly population recover through planting milkweed and nectar plants within their borders. We purposely coordinate with other organizations to help the monarchs fully recover.
Our goal is to get the nation's municipalities to become supporters of the monarch butterfly by planting new monarch milkweed and nectar plants throughout their areas. Of course, we want to promote as many new sites as possible in as short of time as possible.
Please let us know if you have an idea or two to improve our efforts.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
We are advised by citizens throughout the nation. For example, listed below are some of our excellent advisors, who continually give us ideas and feedback, 24/7/365. In alphabetical order:
Dave Conly, Texas: commercial pilot
Dr. Paul Johnson, South Dakota: entomologist
Fran Parker, Colorado: county health employee
Dr. Susan Rupp, Arkansas: owner of Enviroscapes Ecological
Darby Sanders, Iowa: environmentalist
Col. Bob Semrad, South Dakota: retired Chaplin USAF
Nessa Shrank, North Dakota: county clerk
Wendy Kertesz, Ohio: developer of MONARCH, A Living Resort
Fong Cha, Washington: farmer
Logan Dovalina, Texas: graduate student at the University of North Texas
In MEMORIAL
David Gilbertson, California: landscape architect and artist
Dave was our good friend, a landscape architect who cared about the environment in his thinking and plans. There were many caring, human dimensions about Dave, including a very good family. We miss him. All we can say is that God must have had an important, complicated landscape project to do and He chose Dave.
If you have questions about becoming a Monarch City or would like additional information about your membership, feel free to contact us below.
CONTACT US
Director of Public Services: Kristi Kimmet
Email: kristi@wingsrising.org
Phone: (208) 500-8332
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1005 Athol, ID 83801