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Funding Program:
Regional IPM Competitive Grants - Northeastern |
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Project Title:
IPM in and around the Home: Northeast Guidelines |
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Lead State: NY Lead Organization: Cornell University |
| Extension Funding: $49,997 |
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Start Date: May-15-2005 End Date: May-14-2007 |
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Site/Commodity: residential, urban, community |
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Area of Emphasis: guidelines, curriculum |
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Summary:
Three-fourths of the households in the Northeast region use pesticides to manage pests in their homes, lawns, and gardens. Some of these applications could be avoided. Good sources of information about alternatives to pesticides exist, but these are not synthesized, indexed, and packaged in ways that homeowners in the Northeast or even Extension educators, Master Gardeners, and other multipliers can use. An existing set of guidelines, produced by Cornell University, has the potential to be an extremely useful resource. Our plan is to substantially revise it by creating a team of subject matter experts from nine Northeastern states; hiring a project coordinator/writer who will integrate two separate volumes into a printed document called IPM in and around the Home: Northeast Guidelines; producing, marketing, and distributing the printed version to Northeast audiences; hiring a webmaster to create, post, and advertise a web-based version that users can access for free; assessing the effectiveness of the project; and helping to ensure its sustainability in the Northeast.
The broad-reaching goals are to provide educators, homeowners, retailers, and other multipliers with clear, current, and reliable information on pests and pest management on a continuum from nonpesticidal tactics to conventional (nonrestricted) pesticides; build consumers' ability to make informed choices confidently about weed-, insect-, disease-, and wildlife management; increase use of IPM methods among NE consumers; and decrease the negative environmental impacts of conventional pest management by helping to educate the 54 million people in the aforementioned part of the Northeast Region to be environmentally aware and responsible. Objectives: Year One 1. With participation from nine Northeastern states (NJ and PA north to Maine), integrate two separate volumes of information about pest management around the home into one comprehensive document. 2. Plan an interactive website based on IPM in and around the home: Northeast guidelines that is aesthetically appealing, comprehensive, and easy to use. Year Two 1. Produce, market, and distribute the printed version of IPM in and around the home: Northeast guidelines to Northeast audiences. 2. Create, post, and advertise a web-based version of IPM in and around the home: Northeast guidelines that users can access for free. 3. Assess the effectiveness of the project and help to ensure its sustainability in the Northeast. Proposal Progress Report 2006 Final Report |
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