Focus on Parks & Environmental Services

$1.85 million

The amount budgeted for Bloomington, Ind.’s, Parks and Recreation to add a new fishing pier and proposed walkway at the Griffy Lake Nature

Preserve.

Learn more about this project on page 26.

60

Florence, Ala.’s, McFarland Park has 21 primitive sites and 60 pull-in sites for RVs with water, sewer and electric.

Several cities across the U.S. offer camping within their parks. See how four cities do it on page 18.

Focus on: Parks & Environmental Services

75%

About 75% of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of food crops worldwide depend on bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators to reproduce or set fruit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports at usda.gov.

Find out how cities are helping pollinators on page 30.

$5.6 billion

The amount artists add to

Kentucky’s economy.

Lexington-Fayette (KY)

Urban County Government has purchased eight mobile carts for artists to use in

Lexington’s parks, connecting them with a customer base.

Read about Lexington’s Art on the Town program on page 24.

45%

Close to half the park and recreation agencies that participated in the 2022 National Recreation and Park Association Agency Performance Review operate community gardens so residents have access to locally grown food. It’s one reason millennial voters say they will elect local political candidates who prioritize park and recreation funding.

To find out more about the relationship between healthy, local food options, voters and park funding, start at https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2022/september/ parks-and-recreation-provides-healthy-local-food-options/.

3,637

The Woodcrest Drive Stream

Rehabilitation Project will restore approximately 3,637 linear feet of stream along four unnamed tributaries to Deep

Run, which is located within the Lower North Branch Patapsco River watershed.

Turn to page 22 to learn more about this ambitious project.

$200 million

Approximate cost for Ann Arbor, Mich., to connect to Detroit’s water supply. The city is considering the option following several contamination events, including a recent hexavalent release near Hubbell Pond. The pond currently provides the city’s main drinking water source.

Read more about the most recent contaminations at https://www.wvpe.org/michigan-news/2022-08-08/ state-finds-hexavalent-chromium-in-pond-near-tribarmanufacturing-spill.