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Resource Inventory / Environmental Planning
Environmental Plan completed--Robert Turcotte & Howard Nosek authors
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Wildlife & Habitat Management
• Maintain an un-mowed deep secondary rough.
• Planted over 500 shrubs to re-vegetate wetlands and provide wildlife corridors.
• Planted wetland grass mixtures to encourage wildlife feeding.
• Established wetland buffer zones.
• Stocked golf course ponds with fish.
• Initiated a nest box building program- over 90 nest boxes.
• Piled brush in non-play areas for small animal refuge.
• Maintained stone walls that abound on the property.
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Integrated Pest Management
• Scout and monitor pest to ensure they do not exceed thresholds.
• Planted the latest pathogen resistant varieties available.
• Aerification to ensure water, nutrient, and root system maximization.
• Thatch control--mechanical removal and biological decomposition (molasses).
• Fertilization--Fertigation system--70 % of needs - minimizes nutrient loading--enables us to spoon feed.
• Granular fertilizers comprise 30% of need--Nature Safe Organics on greens & tees --Poly-on coated granular fertilizers supplement fairways & rough -- minimal leaching and volatilization.
• Nature Safe organic fertilizers are used on greens and tees.
• Bio-Ject system uses bacteria to combat diseases - fewer pesticide treatment needed--First system used in NH.
• Irrigate judiciously based on ET values--Use wetting agents to maximize water penetration.
• Built state-of-the-art maintenance facility with pesticide storage and wash water and green waste recycling system.
• Utilize non-chemical means to eradicate pests when possible.
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Water Conservation
• Return storm water run-off to irrigation pond via under ground catch basin system.
• Use computer irrigation control for optimum water placement and site specific and cycle/soak adjustments.
• Double and triple row irrigation for optimum distribution.
• Wetting agents employed for maximum percolation.
• Weather station determines ET values for irrigation.
• Secondary roughs are planted to fescues and need no supplemental water.
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Water Quality Management
• Return storm water run-off to irrigation pond via under ground catch basin system.
• Use of turf buffer zones adjacent to sensitive wetlands.
• Re-vegetated wetlands during construction.
• Permanent storm water retention ponds are used to buffer run-off on other areas.
• Use of non soil loading or fertilizers.
• Use Bio Ject system for fungal pathogens.
• Judicious pesticide use.
• Ground water monitoring of pesticide and fertilizer residues.
• Water testing at 8 stream locations for Lake Sunapee Protective Association.
• Blodgett Brook stream flow monitoring.
• Equipment wash water recycling system.
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Outreach and Education
 • Crew performs roadside clean-up on route 103 for the NH Adopt a Highway Program.
• Crew performs roadside clean-up on route 103 for the NH Adopt a Highway Program.
• Local Cub Scout pack assisted us to build 90+ bird boxes.
• Maintain signage at sensitive wetland areas.
• Constructed this Web Site.
• Lectures on IPM tactics for home owners sponsored by the Lake Sunapee Protective Association.
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