Most Recent Articles from Parks & Recreation

• Anticipating the future 

  Last month I saw the future, and it was exciting. Granted, it was one person's version of what parks and recreation may look like a decade from...

  11/01/09 by Jodie Adams · More from publication

• Talking points 

  Nearly half of American adults can't swim in deep-water pools. Two-thirds can't swim in open water. Adults make up 70 percent of all drownings in...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• Lessons learned: managed hunting as a solution to deer overabundance in Howard County Maryland 

  Consequences of Too Many Deer White-tail deer in many parts of the Northeast have greatly increased in number as a result of lack of natural...

  11/01/09 by Paul Farragut · More from publication

• Profile: Darrel Winslow 

  You could say that Darrell Winslow was destined to work in parks and recreation. Growing in Highpoint, North Carolina, he kept animals in the yard,...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• Drain on resources: a look one year later at how the aquatics industry is addressing the Virginia Graeme Baker Act 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As an athlete with disabilities, 56-year-old Bill Stock wasn't going to let the fact that he couldn't use his legs slow...

  11/01/09 by Rachel Roberts · More from publication

• 2009 Ad 

  ON SEPT. 22, 2009, THE National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) assembled a group of roughly 75 Congressional leaders, cabinet members,...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

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