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Trends For Snow Contractors To Watch
Article By ANNE COSGROVE, (Photo: Adobe Stock Christian Delbert) Virtually every industry has been changed by the pandemic. From minor inconveniences due to a change in protocol to major disruptions in livelihoods, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed industries and...
Government Sector And Green Services
Photo Credit: Getty Images In this increasingly post-COVID age of opportunities, you may be thinking: How can I maintain my landscape and turf management business while also growing new client relationships? The answer may lie in government and municipal work. Why?...
DEC Launches Campaign to Encourage Visitors to ‘Love Our NY Lands,’ Practice Sustainable Recreation
This Article Was Written By The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/123007.html Outreach and Education Campaign Supports Goals of Adirondack High Peaks and Catskills Advisory Groups These Lands Belong to All of Us and...
45th NCLC Wraps, Team Competition Winners Named
Shasta College won the Team Spirit Photo Contest.Photo: Leimone Waite The 45th National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC) wrapped up last week and more than 1,000 people participated in the event including 600 students from 40 schools and...
New Film Documents Lake George Road Salt Reduction
By LUCAS WILLARD As part of an effort to reduce the use of road salt in the Adirondacks, the FUND For Lake George has released a film to demonstrate how communities in the Lake George Basin have been able to use new technology to save money and protect the...
The FUND for Lake George traces road to less road salt in film showcasing lakeside towns
by: Jay Petrequin LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The FUND for Lake George has spent five years pushing different ways to reduce the use of road salt around Lake George, for both environmental and cost reasons. That work has caused towns like Lake George and Hague to...
Curbing New York’s 40-year road salt addiction
Winters can be harsh and roads treacherous in the Adirondacks. The state is trying to determine how much salt to apply without overdoing it. Photo by Nancie Battaglia State seeks salt reduction. Can it change fast enough? By Ry Rivard Ahead of the 1980 Winter...
State DOTs Find Alternative Solutions to Clearing Roads
When winter snow imposes its will on the roads, it’s typically mitigated by various amounts of sand, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and road salt, but these de-icing agents also are a major contributor to corrosion problems for fleets. However, states are...
CLIMATE SMART: Why not use more road salt?
Today’s question: Why not use more road salt? In my work with the Town of Geneva, we look at a variety of different topics ranging from waste management to stormwater to public bike trails. One topic that we have been discussing recently is our use of road salt. The...
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