Join Monarch city usa
You can read about the requirements for joining Monarch City USA below, along with a list of practical steps to take once you’ve become a member. Once you have read all the information and feel confident you are ready to join, please click Register Now to purchase your membership.
Don’t hesitate to contact us via email with any questions you may have at info@monarchcityusa.com.
To become a Monarch City USA member, a $50 lifetime fee is required. We offer signs in three different designs to place around your town at $150. Cities are encouraged to purchase at least 2 signs, with bulk discounts offered for larger sign orders. You can purchase 6 signs for the price of 5 with discount code: 6FOR5. If registering as a local organization or civic group, you also have the option to purchase Monarch City USA signs.
As part of your Monarch City USA membership, we ask that you read over this list of simple, positive actions and commit to implementing the ones that make sense for your community. Please note that Monarch City USA encourages a self-directed approach for our members and offers up these suggestions as a means of helpful guidance. They are not all mandatory, but highly suggested. We hope that you will use this as a jumping off point and provide ideas of your own too!
Publicly proclaim that your city is committed to helping the monarch butterflies survive by your immediate and future actions. (A good example is from Brookings, Oregon: https://or-brookings.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/6170?fileID=12283 )
Encourage citizens to plant private milkweed and nectar gardens throughout your city.
Work with gardening, landscaping, and/or arboretum clubs in your city.
Join the national movement to support monarch butterfly habitat development by purchasing and placing Monarch City USA signs at appropriate sites.
Convert abandoned lands to monarch butterfly habitat.
Re-establish native milkweed and nectar plants where possible.
If possible, host an annual monarch butterfly festival. (Free advice is available from us, Monarch City USA.)
Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city's future land use planning efforts.
Work with the local K-12 school system and educators to promote a better understanding of land use conservation.
Investigate possible Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary sites.
Port Edwards, Wisconsin displays their "Monarch Village USA" sign on an entrance to the village. (Photo courtesy Pat McGrath)
POSSIBLE CITY SITES FOR THE STREET SIGNS
You know your city better than anyone else. We suggest that possible sites are along boulevards, streets, and avenues, on school grounds, around city hall, in your parks, etc.
The signs display your city's commitment in supporting the monarchs’ native habitat. Let your citizens and visitors know of your belief in a better habitat for one of nature's marvels: THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY.
PURCHASE MONARCH CITY USA STREET SIGNS
Each all-weather street sign, 12 inches by 18 inches, costs $150, which includes mailing costs. The street signs are of city-grade metal and paint, and made in the USA of the highest quality. You may customize the wording on the sign to fit your organization. We have customized MONARCH VILLAGE USA, MONARCH SCHOOL USA, MONARCH PARK USA, and more.
We offer a choice of three slightly different and yet beautiful street signs. Again, they are all-weather street signs of top-quality metal and paint. You can order signs when you register, and you can always order additional signs at any time. After payment, your order will be delivered within ten working days to any location in the continental United States.
