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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
Adopting IPM on Oregon's School Landscapes |
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Lead State: OR Lead Organization: Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides |
| Undesignated Funding: $10,000 |
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Start Date: Jan-01-2011 End Date: Mar-14-2012 |
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Pests Involved: Weeds and other landscape pests |
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Site/Commodity: public school |
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Summary:
This proposed project meets WIPMC criteria by engaging stakeholders and helping institutions set IPM priorities and adopt IPM practices. Our project will provide the information and support schools need to prevent and suppress landscape pests with minimal impact on human health and the environment. This timely and highly requested project will develop the skills of the people who manage school grounds and help them fulfill requirements of a new IPM in schools law in Oregon.
Our two objectives are to (a) launch a model learning and demonstration site for landscape IPM at one Oregon school and (b) conduct a training to provide practical hands-on landscape management IPM techniques to the people involved in managing school landscapes. Our evaluation process will document the adoption of IPM practices as well as the change in pest complaints and pesticide use. This project has the potential to significantly expand landscape IPM into other school districts in Oregon and around the west. Objectives: Objective One: Starting in March 2011, launch a model learning and demonstration site for landscape IPM at one Oregon public school. The process includes an initial inspection, three site visits and an evaluation. Objective Two: In the fall of 2011, conduct a training to introduce IPM basics and practical hands-on landscape management IPM techniques for at least 25 participants. Participants will include representatives from the school with the demonstration site, groundskeepers and facility managers from other school districts, as well as pest management professionals that contract with schools on landscape management. Training topics will be driven by pest challenges at the demonstration site. The participants will represent at least four school districts with 125 Oregon schools and over 75,000 students. |
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