As a turf management industry stakeholder, you are receiving this note because of a highly destructive insect pest to turf, the Japanese beetle (JB), discovered in the False Creek area of Vancouver the summer of 2017.
Read more: Japanese Beetle Public Service Announcement - Please Pass It On
Thank you to everyone who attended the online meeting on October 24, 2018 to learn more about the changes to the MVRD Non-Road Diesel Engine Emission Regulation Bylaw No. 1161, including requirements for registration of low-use engines.
Read more: Metro-Vancouver Changes to the Diesel Engine Bylaw
As many Metro-Vancouver area golf and sportsturf managers know, amendments to the city’s water management plan, now called the ‘Drinking Water Protection Plan’, allow golf courses and sportsfields to follow an approved water management plan versus following arbitrary restrictions imposed in stages 2 and 3.
from the Guelph Turfgrass Institute
The Guelph Turfgrass Institute, under the direction of Dr. Eric Lyons and funded through the WCTA, has initiated the Turfgrass Outreach Project (TOP).
On January 10, golf industry personnel from throughout the Greater Vancouver area gathered at Riverway Golf Course in Burnaby for a BC Allied Golf Association town hall meeting designed to review the advocacy history between implementation of phase 3 water restrictions during the summer of 2015 and today, present a summary of the irrigation survey commissioned by AGA-BC aimed at fulfilling the regulator’s request for data, and to solicit input and direction from the golf industry at large for implementation of water use management plans as an alternative to arbitrary restrictions based on the day, time or irrigated area.