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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Hebert, Francois |
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| Author Affiliation: | Consulting Landscape Architect, Outremont, Quebec, Canada |
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| Title: | Synthetic turf is here to stay [Part 2] |
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| Source: | Turf & Recreation. Vol. 19, No. 6, September/October 2006, p. 26, 28. |
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| Publishing Information: | Delhi, Ontario: Turf & Recreation Publishing, Inc. |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Artificial turf; Wear; Sports turf maintenance; Perceptions; Costs; Athletic fields; Natural versus artificial turf; Turfgrass industry
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| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses synthetic turf, suggesting that it "is not only hot in the summer, but it smells, it attracts birds and other debris producing pests, it's tiring to play on...and it's expensive to build and maintain." Also suggests that "stressing the inherent limits of natural turfgrass surfaces and denouncing the folly of their overuse will do more for the development of the turfgrass industry than denouncing the use of working solutions." Profiles a situation where a synthetic surface is used "to allow that certain games be moved from natural fields when these had to be shut down because of weather." Explains that this program resulted in about a 30per cent reduction in maintenance costs. Suggests that for the turfgrass industry "to decry synthetic turf as an aberration and to focus all its efforts to trying to discredit it contributes nothing to the search for solutions." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also Part 1, "Can't stand the heat? Get off the synthetic field" Turf & Recreation, 19(4) June 2006, p. 24-26 R=112191 R=112191 |
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| Note: | Pictures, color |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Hebert, F. 2006. Synthetic turf is here to stay [Part 2]. Turf Recreat. 19(6):p. 26, 28. |
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