Most Recent Articles from Parks & Recreation

• The need to go green 

  These are challenging times. So, when it comes to supporting the green movement that impacts our world of parks and recreation, let's build on our...

  05/01/09 by Jodie H. Adams · More from publication

• Going the extra green mile 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Paul Mills drives home from work, it bothers him if he sees tires discarded on a creek bank. As principal of Anderson...

  05/01/09 by Jess Clarke · More from publication

• Green rebirth: for one Illinois park district, going native is the answer 

  From the ground, it appeared a bath of natural vegetation. But the truth was inescapable from the sky. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2007, a...

  05/01/09 by DougLas Vaira · More from publication

• Finding the funds for urban parks 

  Urban park funding is needed now more than ever to provide attractive and healthy environments nationwide. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 79...

  05/01/09 by Ashley Futrell · More from publication

• The battle is on! Parks versus global warming 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It could be any wetland in any public park, not very big but teeming with an incredible variety of life. Birds once waded...

  05/01/09 by Richard J. Dolesh Richard Gelb · More from publication

• Who says bird-watching is boring? 

  Recently, I went bird-watching with some of the other kids from the Southgate Community Center in Reston, Virginia. It was my first time, so I...

  05/01/09 by Athena Washington · More from publication

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