For Further Information for your Lawn & Garden Needs:
Rain Gardens; Gardening with Water Quality in Mind, this site provides a nice overview of rain garden with wonderful external inks to resources available from the Internet http://www.infinetivity.com/~stack/rain/
Rain Gardens Design for Home Ownersthis booklet provides a basic how to guide for rain garden installation for home owners, a wonderful resource when designing and caring for your rain garden http://www.aces.edu/waterquality/nemo/Fact 20Sheets/rain 20garden, 20mg, 20final.pdf
TAPP think about Personnel Pollution educates individuals on ways that small personal changes in home and yard practice can help keep local lakes, sinks and streams cleaner. http://www.tappwater.org
The Florida Yard & Neighborhoods Program main site provides special educational and outreach activities directed to communities to help residents reduce pollution and enhance their environment by improving home and landscape management. http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/fyn/
Florida-Friendly Landscaping web site proved great information to create your Florida-Friendly yard. All it takes is a willingness to learn and a desire to build a yard that is both beautiful and protects our precious Florida environment. http://www.floridayards.org/index.php
IFAS, A Guide to Environmentally Friendly Landscaping , A guide for Florida homeowners who seek to redefine the image of home and landscape. The idea is to cooperate with local, natural conditions, rather than to battle the elements. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_EP079
A Guide to Florida-Friendly Landscaping Florida Yard & Neighborhoods Handbook
This FYN handbook provides helpful concepts, tools and techniques for creating your own Florida Friendly Yard. A yard that is beautiful and environmentally friendly! http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/fyn/handbook.pdf
Central Florida Yard & Neighborhood web site is full of useful links and tips to maintaining your Florida-Friendly Yard. http://cfyn.ifas.ufl.edu/
Leon County's IFAS Extension Resources:
Leon County Extension Office Solutions for your Life http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/lawn_and_garden/MG/GardeningInThePanhandle/index.shtml
UF/IFAS Leon County Extension is part of a statewide network of extension facilities.
The Leon County extension is here to service the needs of our community. http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/
Leon County Extensions Timely gardening articles can be found at http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/News_Columns/index.shtml
Leon County Master Gardener's newsletters
http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/lawn_and_garden/MG/newsletters/index.shtml
Local Links:
Killearn Lakes Homeowner's Association helps to keep residents of the Killearn Lakes Plantation connected. http://www.killearnlakeshoa.org/
Killearn Lakes Plantation Sanitary Sewer System provides residents of Units I and II with affordable solutions and timely information for connecting to the neighborhood's low-pressure sanitary sewer system. http://www.klpsewer.com/
Killearn Lakes water quality from McGlynn Laboratories
http://www.mcglynnlabs.com/KillearnLakesProjectPage.html
The City of Tallahassee's Go Green Tallahassee
initiative to promote and encourage environmental responsibility in our community
http://talgov.com:80/communications/green.cfm
Tallahassee Public Works is responsible for traffic control, road maintenance, drainage, and stormwater management for the city. http://www.talgov.com/pubworks/index.cfm
Florida's Department of Environmental Protection Nonpoint Sources Pollution:
Nonpoint Source Management Program's goal is to minimize nonpoint sources pollution (Pointless Personal Pollution) from new and end existing land use activities.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/nonpoint/
Nonpoint sources management best management practices, public information and educational resources.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/nonpoint/pubs.htm
Waterfront Property Owner's Guide , A guide directed towards waterfront property owners to broaden the awareness on the cause, effects and prevention of water pollution.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/nonpoint/docs/nonpoint/wpog.pdf
Florida Green Industries Best Management Practices for Protection of Water Resources in Florida , A manual that provides information and guidance on turfgrass and landscape management practices to conserve and protect Florida's water resources. This manual serves as an educational guide for professional service providers and other interested parties.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/central/Home/MeetingsTraining/FLGreen/BMP_Book_final.pdf
Best Management Practices for the Enhancement of Environmental Quality on Florida Golf Courses , A manual on best management practices covering many of the aspects of operating a golf course in environmentally sound manner written in conjunction with FDEP, Florida golf Course Superintendents Association, Audubon International and the University of Florida. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/nonpoint/docs/nonpoint/glfbmp07.pdf
Additional Sources of Information:
Univeristy of Florida's IFAS main site
The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is a federal-state-county partnership dedicated to developing knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and the life sciences, and enhancing and sustaining the quality of human life by making that information accessible.
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/index.html
The Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants has information on the ecological problems associated with exotic and introduced plant species in Florida. The site also identifies ways that you can help combat these invaders. http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/invplant.html
Florida Lakewatch is a volunteer citizen monitoring the quality of water resources throughout the state. http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/
Florida Forever Program Originally called Preservation 2000, this recently transformed program has been responsible for the acquisition and restoration of over 1.5 million acres of land in our state. Florida Forever also provided the grant for the Killearn Lakes Restoration Project. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/acquisition/p2000/
Florida Lake Management Society provides information for preserving and enhancing water resources, as well as the Love Your lake Program, which provides funding for lakefront improvement projects. http://www.flms.net/
Florida Native Plant Society is dedicated to promoting the benefits of native plants in the wild and in our yards. This site has resources for landscaping, policy, and links to identification resources. http://www.fnps.org/
National Academies' Water Information Center provides scientific resources for the many challenges of maintaining and improving water resources nationwide. http://water.nationalacademies.org/
Northwest Florida Water Management District is responsible for protecting and managing the water resources in our 16-county region. http://www.nwfwmd.state.fl.us/
University of Wisconsin Lakes Program has a large selection of information on the impact of human activities on our lakes. http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/humanimpact/
University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Extensions web site on Water Resources Education
http://clean-water.uwex.edu/index.html
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