continued on page 4 All of these strategies are combined or integrated to manage turf in a healthy and vigorous state. No one strategy necessarily takes precedence over another. Like the pieces of a puzzle, all are critical to complete the entire picture of turfgrass management. An interesting way to view this concept is to visualize the management process as a pyramid. (See Figure 1). The base...

The biodiversity and climate crises are critical challenges of this century. Wildflower meadows in urban areas could provide important nature-based solutions, addressing the jointly benefitting society process. King's College Cambridge (England, UK) established a wildflower meadow over portion its iconic Back Lawn 2019, replacing fine lawn first laid 1772. We used surveys, Wilcoxon signed rank ...

New federal water quality regulations regarding impaired waters and urban stormwater, alongside a growing need to reverse eutrophication of urban lakes, are creating demand to decrease nutrient export from urban landscapes, particularly lawns. We propose that Nowak et al.’s (2006) disproportionality framework could be used to target specific households likely to generate disproportionate levels...