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Funding Program:
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Project Title:
Midwest Grows Green Lawn & Land Forum: Improving Turfgrass IPM policy and practice to protect land, water, wildlife, and people. |
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Lead State: IL Lead Organization: Midwest Pesticide Action Center |
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Cooperating State(s):
Minnesota, Wisconsin |
| Undesignated Funding: $19,996 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2017 End Date: Feb-28-2018 |
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Site/Commodity: Turfgrass |
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Area of Emphasis: Turfgrass IPM |
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Summary:
Midwest Pesticide Action Center (MPAC), a Midwest based organization focused solely on reducing the health risks and environmental impacts of pesticides by advancing safer alternatives in urban residential areas, respectfully requests support in the amount of $20,000 over one year from the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center (NCIPM) to support our recently established turf grass Working Group. The Midwest Grows Green (MGG) Lawn & Land Forum is a working group using a bottom-up meets top-down behavior and policy change approach. Ultimately, this project intends to create an interconnected policymaking system to protect land, water, wildlife, and people by scaling the educational outreach successes of MPAC’s Midwest Grows Green natural lawn care initiative. The system aims to achieve improved outdoor Integrated Pest Management policies and practices at park districts, school districts, and local governments in the Midwest and nationwide. Representatives from the University of Wisconsin (UW), Illinois Sports Turf Managers Association (ILSTMA), University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois Extension will participate in this Working Group to create informative and engaging activities for the community of large turf managers in the Midwest and beyond.
Objectives: 1. Facilitate four peer-to-peer MGG Lawn & Land Forum Sessions (Three webinars, one in-person workshop) 2. Publish and distribute End of Forum Recording and Notes. 3. Increase distribution of the action-oriented components of MGG Forum outcomes. |
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