Greener Approach
Sustainability is an approach to meeting our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This area contains resources applicable to greener approaches in the park maintenance industry.
Rain Garden Maintenance
Rutgers Cooperative Extension, 2010
Slide deck from a presentation focused on rain garden training for landscapers.
Maintaining Your Rain Garden
University of Illinois Extension, 2017
Slide deck from a Master Gardener presentation giving an overview of rain garden design, and frequent maintenance tasks required to keep them functioning properly.
Rain Gardens
Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2005
This article is an overview of rain garden design principles and basic functionality.
VOLUNTEER TASKS - Rain Garden Maintenance
University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, 2006
Sample training activity / education course outline intended for youth volunteer groups.
Rain Garden Inspection and Maintenance
Rutgers Cooperative Extension, 2010
Slide deck from an extension presentation focusing on post-construction rain garden inspection and maintenance tasks for the first 2 - 3 years of establishment.
SAMPLE - Sustainability Plan
Harvard University, 2014
Sample sustainability plan from a post-secondary educational institution.
Example Rain Garden Management Plan
City of Pawtucket, 2018
A maintenance plan developed, for a series of rain gardens that will receive runoff from a new spray park in the City. 1. Developed with input from park maintenance staff, considering their available resources and equipment. 2. Provides an example management plan for other public and private rain gardens not otherwise available.
Sustainable Land Management
The World Bank, 2006
The specific objectives of the report are to articulatepriorities for investment in SLM and natural resource management and to identify the policy, institutional, and incentive reform options that will acceleratethe adoption of SLM productivity improvements and pro-poor growth.
What are Permeable Surfaces?
Penn State Extension, 2022
Permeable surfaces are alternatives to typical paving methods that can help to greatly increase infiltration and decrease flooding and run-off issues
Pollinator-Friendly Parks
Xerces Society, 2021
The goal of this publication is to provide helpful information so parks can be planned and managed with pollinators and other insects in mind.
Plants Bees Like Best
Horticultural Research Institute, 2017
This is a list of plants that can be planted in landscapes to attract native bees and other pollinators.
Best Management Practices (BMPs) forBee Health in the Horticultural Industry
Horticultural Research Institute, 2017
While the green industry is diverse, some common threads exist among greenhouse and nursery production and landscape management when pollinator safety is concerned.
Basic Principles of Watershed Restoration and Stormwater Management
University of Maryland Extension, 2020
The objective of this document is to provide an overview of the most relevant urban stormwater management and watershed restoration issues, common mitigating practices, and regulations relevant to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Habitat Gardening for Wildlife
Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2015
If we provide consistent, clear messagesand simple guidance about how to improve or restore habitat in our communities, then the resulting actionsby the public should help to slow—and ultimately, one hopes, to reverse—the trend of declining wildlife species.
Invasive Plants and Their Native Look-alikes
Delaware Department of Agriculture, 2008
This guide fills a need for a regional photographic guide to a broad selection of invasive plants that are often confused with similar native look-alikes.
