- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Three UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers in Southern California have raised concerns about the trend in California to remove lawns to cope with the drought, reported Janet Zimmerman in the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
They believe living lawns need not be sacrificed to meet mandatory water-conservation goals set by Gov. Jerry Brown. Turf simply needs to be managed better, said Dennis Pittenger, UC ANR Cooperative Extension advisor based at UC Riverside. Pittenger co-wrote a white paper with UC ANR Cooperative Extension advisor
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Turfgrass specialist Jim Baird told reporter Karen Kaplen he hopes grass from his patchwork of experimental turf plots at UC Riverside will grace the lawns, parks, golf courses and athletic fields of the future.
"My colleagues say I'm crazy," Baird is quoted. "But it doesn't hurt to dream."
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- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Riverside Press-Enterprise yesterday ran a nearly 700-word story about a Riverside field day aimed at saving water resources while maintaining beautiful green turf. The article said a new botany professor at UC Riverside, James Baird, joined forces with UC Cooperative Extension to bring back the annual landscape and turf field day after it had been on hiatus a few years.
"Water is only going to get more scarce," Baird was quoted. "And landscaping is one of those areas where we can make major progress first, where we can really work to be good stewards of the environment."
UC research to develop prettier, tougher and...