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142 <br /> <br /> <br />Lake Itasca Monarch Trail <br />In the summer of 2017, the City designated a <br />portion of the Lake Itasca Trail as a Monarch <br />Trail. This was in conjunction with the <br />Mayor’s Monarch Pledge proclamation. The <br />Monarch Trail includes roughly seven (7) <br />acres of land on both sides of an existing, well <br />used trail segment along Lake Itasca. A <br />ceremonial planting of a mixture of plugs was <br />completed in the summer of 2017. Site <br />preparations occurred over the following fall, <br />winter and spring seasons. This included a <br />prescribed burn to eliminate non-native and <br />undesirable vegetation (forbs/grasses) and <br />removal of red cedar and Siberian elms <br />within approximately 100 feet of the trail. <br />The site was then seeded with species <br />favored by monarch butterflies and other <br />pollinators. This project converted fallow <br />land into a native, pollinator friendly <br />landscape that abuts a heavily used <br />walking/biking trail in the community. Thus, <br />it not only created new habitat but also did so <br />in a location that would is highly visible to the <br />community. <br />