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Westside Recreation Center By Liz Moucka, 5/5/2008
As neighborhoods grew in El Paso's northwest side, the city's Parks and Recreation Dept. sought to create a positive neighborhood influence near the West Hills housing development. Working With Nature Available land on the west side of the Franklin Mountain Range has become premium, but a 100-acre area of rainwater detention ponds held promise. More
Storm Water BMP Restores Stream Staff - 04/14/2008
One of the purposes of a storm water best management practice (BMP), such as a wet pond, is to protect streams below the BMP from erosion and bank scour. Natural channel design can play a major role in achieving this BMP when trying to improve older urban watersheds that were "built out" prior to today's stringent regulations.
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CENTS 2008 Staff - 04/14/2008
Thousands of people attended CENTS 2008 — the Central Environmental Nursery Trade Show, held recently at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus. The event was held in conjunction with the Ohio State University Nursery Short Course. According to the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association, headquartered in Westerville, the annual CENTS show is an event specifically fo...
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Returning Guanella Pass To Nature By Carol Carder - 04/14/2008
"Nobody had ever done an alpine tundra project of this scale," says Ron Dean of American Civil Constructors Inc. (ACC), Centennial, Colo., speaking of the successful high altitude sod transplant on Guanella Pass above Georgetown, Colo.
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Landscaping Albuquerque's "Big I" By Bruce Higgins - 04/14/2008
The intersection of interstates 25 and 40 in Albuquerque is known locally as the "Big I." The original Big I was built in the mid-1960s at a time when the Interstate Highway System did not connect through Albuquerque, and therefore traffic routing and maintenance were of no concern. Construction of the original interchange was rather isolated from local traffic, and there was no cross-country t...
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Haynes Does Extreme Makeover By Joanne Ray - 04/14/2008
It was an exciting time last summer when Seymour, Conn.-based Haynes Materials was approached by Gulick Associates from New Caanan ...
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Landscaper Serves Customers Year-Round By Mike Larson, Editor - 04/07/2008
MJB Services, Elkhorn, Wis., has built a thriving landscape-services business in southeastern Wisconsin by skillfully attending to its customers' needs and by focusing on providing an extra measure of service that grows long-term customer relationships. Owners Michael J. Boyd and Kathy Krubert, partners both in the business and in the rest of life for 20 years, lead a team of extended family me...
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Landscape Contractors Serve Different Niches By Ivy Chang - 04/07/2008
During the last decade, environmental concerns and regulations have prompted landscape contractors to become independent workers from other contractors on commercial projects. Landscape contractors have divided their work to specialize in certain areas of landscaping, such as trees and shrubs, turf or decorative landscaping.
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JCB Hosts Inaugural Roadshow At Savannah Factory Contractors and other industry representatives from throughout the region converged on the JCB factory in Savannah for the first of several JCB Roadshows scheduled for various locations.
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