Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation was founded in 1863 when Mr. Henry Williams purchased Old Fort Park and donated it to the city of Fort Wayne. Since then, Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation has continued to grow acquiring 85 more parks which include Reservoir Park in 1880, Foster Park golf course in 1928, Fort Wayne’s Children’s Zoo in 1962, the Botanical Conservatory in 1979 and more recently Robert E. Meyer’s Park in 2008. This organization does much more for the community than just taking care of the city’s parks. Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation also hosts many activities in town including multiple different camps for children and young adults. (City of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation, 2013) The employees of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation hold four key values that include honesty, teamwork, fairness, and integrity. With all this being said, the mission of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation is, “To enhance quality of life in Fort Wayne by providing positive opportunities for leisure time and by being stewards of our park lands, facilities, public trees, and other resources entrusted to our care.” (City of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation, 2013) In order to make this mission a reality, Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation has been involved in many projects and activities to help enhance the community and the environment. A couple of these projects and activities include Ash tree removal and treatment, the extension and addition of trails, and children’s day camps such as Franke Park Day Camp or City Safari Day Camp.
In this area in recent years, the Emerald Ash Borer has been targeting the large population of Ash trees. This insect is a green beetle type species that burrows under the bark of the Ash tree and destroys it from the inside. T...
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...ship is open to all city and Allen County residents, 18 years of age or older. The foundation is classified as tax-exempt.” (City of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation, 2013) A foundation that is tax exempt is one that does not owe taxes to the government. Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation is doing many great things to benefit the community and the environment. By treating the Ash tree, they are preserving the beauty of parks like Headwaters and saving the city money and energy. Making a new trail leading from the University of Saint Francis’s campus to the Yarnelle Trail will make travels by foot or bike safer for people in the community along with promoting a healthier life style. By providing camps for young children, Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation is providing an opportunity for young children to learn about the environment and how they can impact it in the future.
It’s not the latest comic book super villain that we’re worried about, here in Northwest Ohio. No, it’s a little green beetle that, since 2003, has been munching its way through our neighborhoods and Metroparks. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) feasts on our Ash trees, leaving us little choice but to spray a bright red stripe or “X” on the trunks of the mortally wounded flora.
ImageText BoxImageOne of the biggest threats to the environment of Ontario is the Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar dispar). The species itself is native to Europe and Asia. How this affects us is by weakening trees across Ontario and North America. The first time the gypsy moth was found in Ontario was 1969. The gypsy moth can be found in southern Canada (Ontario), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. It is known to weaken trees and the caterpillar form live in trees and during most outbreaks its caterpillar feces would fall from the trees to the ground or even on top of humans. The average Gypsy Caterpillar can grow 5-6 centimeters long. With five pairs of blue spots and six pairs of bright red dots on their back. The female moth are white and can fly on the other hand, the male moth are brown and can also fly. The female have a 5cm wing span but male have a 2.5cm wing span. The gypsy moth usually lives in open forests and other forests and take up at least 20% of the space. The Gypsy moth are about 4cm long, tan coloured and can be located on tree trunks, furniture, and buildings. (OFAH Invading Species Awareness Program, 2012)
Cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne F (Col.: Anobiidae) is a cosmopolitan stored product insect pest (Rees, 2004). The female beetles are found to deposit about 100 eggs loosely on commodities which hatch between 6- 10 days in territory weather conditions (Cabrera, 2007). The beetles that emerge as adult are capable of flight and do not feed as adult but create holes in the product to locate a suitable oviposition site (Papadopoulou, 2006). The shortest development period from egg to adult stage is 26 days at 30°C and 70 % relative humidity (Rees, 2004) (in what product?)
The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) offers quality built-up leisure and recreation services for citizens and tourists to the District of Columbia. DPR oversees numerous leisure/recreation centers, parks, healthy fields, outdoor play area, skate parks, tennis courts, public gardens, pet parks, aquatic amenities and many features of the District of Columbia.
Another social responsibility of Cedar Fair L.P. is community development. Not only does each park benefit from a plethora of guests but so does neighboring businesses such as hotels when guests decide to stay overnight close to the park and restaurants for people who decide to eat outside of the park. Many of Cedar Fair’s parks even offer deals on tickets for two day entry to help boost sales for hotels and restaurants in the
Native to eastern Asia, the Emerald Ash Borer is a small metallic green beetle that can kill an ash tree in as little as three years, spreading rapidly to neighboring ash or white fringetrees. Females can lay between 60 to 90 eggs in a lifetime. As a larva, the Emerald Ash Borer lives and feeds underneath the bark of the ash tree and emerges in the spring as
The article stated that, “Overgrown weeds mask the graffiti on the remaining buildings”(Tanner 6). This shows how little the Nelsons and the City of Wichita care about this iconic amusement park. Many city officials now see the park as a nuisance, but this so-called “nuisance” was once a part of Wichita. Tanner interviewed the Preservation Alliance of Wichita and Roger Nelson in order to find sources that would support her ideas. I felt as if the interview with Nelson was the most important, and sadly Tanner did not ask Nelson any important questions during their interview. Nelson stated in the interview, “We are in the process of tearing it all down” (Tanner 1). Locals understand this because bits of Joyland have been stolen or vandalized for years. Tanner could have taken this opportunity to ask Nelson about why he and his family did not maintain the park and allowed it to deteriorate over the years. Joyland was once considered the best and most unique attraction Wichita had to
The creation of the computer and the Internet has significantly furthered and revolutionized Parks and Recreation Districts across the country. Parks and Recreation Management is a profession that has been able to prosper with the Internet and personal computers today. Recreation in the present day is becoming especially popular due to a general decrease in working hours because of the economy. With many people having more free time, more demands are put on the Parks and Recreation districts. Also with the many national, state, and private parks in the United States, it is crucial for the park systems to have a systematic approach to dealing with these new demands. The computer and Internet has become the answer to this problem.
Since its creation in 1916, the National Park Service (NPS) has had to balance between its two goals, which are to preserve wilderness and nature and to provide the public with access to these wonders in a monitored environment. These two goals tend to create a conflict for the NPS because as soon as one goal is given more priority than the other, the administration of national parks is harshly criticized by the public. The accusation that by allowing people to experience the wilderness, the NPS is corrupting the natural environment is very common, as well, as the criticism towards the lack of government funding to preserve nature and history. However, regardless of arguable criticism and a certain need for improvement, after one hundred years,
The ‘Mountain Pine Beetle Program’ (2007), Canadian Government publication, stated that mountain pine beetles targets trees that are the oldest and sickest in that area, which keep the liveliness of the forest ongoing. The mountain pine beetles have been advancing since 1994 and in the past recent years, the magnitude and severity of this species has rapidly expanded (Taylor, S. W., & Carroll, A. L., 2003, pg. 10). “As of the year (2003), 4.2 million ha of red attack were recorded through aerial overview surveys in the province,” mentioned by ‘BC Ministry of Forests’ (2004). ‘The Forest Insect Survey Records’ demonstrate that there have been four to five notable outbreaks in British Columbia over the past 100 years (Taylor & Carroll, 2003, pg. 43), and Taylor & Carroll, (2003) stated that these outbreaks keep expanding over time towards the impacted areas. In the past, to control the pine beetles from getting over populated, we referred to the cycle of survival. Where our climates weather would take over, like cold winters and wildfires in the summer, and where woodpeckers would eat them to ensure that a handful of beetles only made it to adulthood (Mountain Pine Beetle, Canadian Government publication, 2007,
Idlewild & Soakzone is the oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania. Today, Amusement Today recognizes Idlewild & Soakzone as the Best Children’s Park. (About Idewild, n.d.). The park has a rich history “Idlewild Park came into existence when William Darlington, owner of the property, gave "the right and privilege to occupy his land for picnic purposes or pleasure grounds" to Judge Thomas Mellon, owner of the Ligonier Valley Railroad. The date was May 1, 1878,” (About Idlewild, n.d.). Idlewild’s modest beginnings were for picnic grounds near the Ligonier Valley Railroad. The Darlington-Mellon agreement for development of the Park, “included campgrounds on both sides of the railroad right-of-way, an artificial lake created
The great park’s creator Olmsted, who “made a central concern of his career how to retain proximity with nature in what was swiftly becoming a nation of cities” (p. 11-12), designed the park in 1858 with Calvert Vaux in hopes to eliminate the “‘social failures:’ the swelling ranks of criminals and prostitutes, of the alcoholic, insane, diseased, and the poor” (p. 11-12), but was futile instead. After the “rural retreat” (p. 12) of Central Park was completed by the predominantly Irish immigrant workforce -- intending for the park to be service to all to escape the urban lifestyle -- few were able to go. Averaging approximately 30,000 visitors a day for a total of 10 million in 1871, the park catered largely to uptown, wealthy inhabitants. The park was too expensive for the non-prosperous classes to travel from downtown, far from their work, to enjoy the
National Parks play a large part in our country’s history. In the mid-1800s, a group of people wanted to preserve the national treasures, the wilderness. Among these people was John Muir who once said “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” . In 1872 Ulysses S Grant made Yellowstone national park the first national park. The parks are cared for by the National Park Service. They receive a budget every year that the president creates. The National Park Service works to maintain the park and keep it safe, clean, and in shape. President Theodore Roosevelt was a large advocate for the National Parks and has many quotes about the Parks includeing said, “For the benefit and enjoyment of the people”. When President Roosevelt said this he was speaking about how the
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Well that’s simple. It was designed way back in the 1800, for the public. The land, over 750 acres, was given from the New York State Legislator, in 1853, to create the first major landscaped park, in central Manhattan. The state held a competition of what design the park was going to have. Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the competition in 1858. The park held up well at first. People respected the land. During the early 1900’s, the park took a great downfall. Instead of it begin known for its beauty, it was known for the illegal activity that was going on. Eventually the state got together and realized they were failing on their duties. Robert Moses, the park commissioner from 1934-1960, got approved from federal funding’s, to restore most structures. Again, after he left office, the depression was also in place, the park went back down a dark path. The people lost care in the park. In 1974, park funders got management together to raise more money to restore the park once again. Latter down the road Doug Blonsley started working with a woman, named Betsey, in 1993- 2008. The park hasn’t seen any better days, than the days of today. All it took is a little care and the park is looking better than it ever have in the last 150