Sustainable Turfgrass Management in the Canadian Prairie Provinces

加拿大草原省份的可持续草坪管理

• 批准号: 459005-2013
• 负责人: Williams, Toby
• 金额: $ 29.14万
• 依托单位: Olds College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: College and Community Innovation Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=641828
• 关键词: Sustainable; Turfgrass; Management; Canadian; Prairie

The turfgrass industry can be defined as all public and private organizations that maintain grasses forrecreational purposes. This initiative focuses on the highest priority knowledge gaps in the turfgrass industrywhich include: the reduction of winter injury, reduction of biotic stress, grass selection for alternative turf uses,and water quality and conservation. To address these knowledge gaps, the industry wishes to expand appliedresearch activities in a planned and collaborative manner that will increase industry sustainability and researchoutcomes. These expected outcomes include best practices, improved processes, lower production andmaintenance costs and more sustainable business practices. Further, these outcomes are expected to have apositive and direct impact on both rural and urban communities in Alberta and the Prairie Provinces. Given thenumber of communities with strong links to the turfgrass industry, it is very clear that the industry will alsohave a positive and direct impact on economic development, through innovation, job creation, tourism andrecreational investment and expenditure. Olds College and its industry partners strongly believe that thisinitiative is strategic, timely, scalable, and achievable. From an Olds College perspective, this initiative wasselected on the basis of strong student numbers in turfgrass management, industry demand for collaborativeturfgrass research and a 24 year history of industry support. Olds College and other industry partners are fullyprepared to undertake all incremental activities described in this initiative. In conclusion, this initiative willenable the turfgrass industry in the Prairie Provinces to become the "new Green" renewable industry.

草皮行业可以定义为所有维持草的公共组织和私人组织。该计划的重点是草皮草行业的最高优先知识差距，其中包括：减少冬季损伤，减少生物压力，替代草皮用途的草选择以及水质和保护。为了解决这些知识差距，该行业希望以计划和协作的方式扩大应用研究活动，以增加行业的可持续性和研究人员。这些预期的结果包括最佳实践，改进的流程，降低的生产和维护成本以及更可持续的商业实践。此外，预计这些结果将对艾伯塔省和草原省的农村和城市社区产生直接和直接影响。鉴于与草皮行业有着密切联系的社区的镇定者，很明显，通过创新，创造就业机会，旅游业雄心勃勃的投资和支出，该行业还将对经济发展产生积极而直接的影响。 Olds College及其行业合作伙伴坚信，这种教学是战略性，及时，可扩展性和可实现的。从奥尔兹学院的角度来看，这项倡议是基于草皮草管理中的强大学生人数，行业对合作的需求以及24年的行业支持历史。 Olds College和其他行业合作伙伴已经准备好进行本计划中描述的所有增量活动。总之，这项倡议将使草原省的草皮行业成为“新的绿色”可再生产业。