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Council hears park operations update: reduced mowing, native prairie plantings and AED locations
Summary
Staff described plans to reduce mowing in selected areas to establish native grasses and forbs, detailed a reconditioning approach at Tyler Park, and listed locations where automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are kept in city parks facilities.
Parks operations staff told the Davenport Park and Recreation Advisory Council that the department is reducing routine mowing in selected sites to establish native prairie and pollinator habitat while still planning targeted mowing before winter where needed. Staff said the hill at Lindsay Park was seeded with native grasses and will be mowed down once more before…
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