Waunakee Monarchs

12/14/2025

Waunakee Public Works did it again! They completed several tasks this past year to educate the community, as well as keeping an active role in helping the monarch butterfly!

09/23/2024

08/13/2024

The prep work for a small prairie restoration project at Ripp Park is under way! 🦋🌱🌼

06/06/2024

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Miles for Monarchs is an online campaign designed to engage participants in personal wellness while supporting monarch conservation. Join individually or with a team, track your mileage, get out into nature, and learn from conservation experts at the Monarch Joint Venture.

10/06/2023

https://blog.nwf.org/2014/11/what-to-do-with-fallen-leaves/

Find out why and for tips on how to minimize the time you spend raking this autumn and maximize the benefit to wildlife and the greater environment that fallen leaves offer.

03/02/2023

The Village of Waunakee signed the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and plans to support and expand monarch conservation efforts across our own community. We urge other heads of local government to take the pledge to protect monarchs before March 31st! https://www.nwf.org/mayorsmonarchpledge.

Through the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors' Monarch Pledge, U.S. cities, municipalities, and other communities are committing to create habitat for the monarch butterfly and pollinators and to educate citizens about how they can make a difference at home and in their community.

09/27/2022

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07/08/2022

Monarch Butterfly Conservation Workshop happening at Schumacher Farm Park in Waunakee on Saturday, July 16th at 1:00 pm. G*e Bergmann, Master Gardener, will present Monarch butterfly rearing best practices, current conservation efforts and how to improve Monarch habitat. Registration:

This 40-acre farmstead, called Schumacher Farm Park, was gifted to the Dane County Parks Commission in 1978 by Marcella Schumacher Pendall, the only child of Henry Schumacher. The original farmhouse and barn built by Henry Schumacher in 1908 are accompanied by outbuildings of the same era, donated t...

03/13/2022

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03/04/2022

March has arrived and the spring migration season is almost here. In Mexico, Estela Romero and Ana Moreno are seeing signs that monarchs will soon be heading north. And in the Western U.S., Gail Morris shares news that monarch numbers are still strong at overwintering sites but upcoming warmer weather could spark more movement.

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📷: Ana Moreno