LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Did you know monarch butterflies migrate through Southern Nevada?

Now, there might be even more fluttering through the Las Vegas Valley thanks to a conversation initiative stemming from classroom learning.

Students at K.O. Knudson Middle School have successfully convinced Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley to sign the Mayor's Monarch Pledge, committing the city to plant milkweed in parks across Las Vegas to support the endangered insects.

VIDEO: Geneva Zoltek talks to middle school students who became the catalyst for planting of milkweeds in parks across Las Vegas Milkweed for Monarchs: Local middle school students get Las Vegas Mayor to sign butterfly pledge

The initiative began last year when a 7th-grade science class learned about monarch butterflies' impressive 3

See Full Page