Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping

• "Integrating Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping into Your Environmental Management System," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, October, 2006

  This document provides practical guidance, potential language, and examples of environmentally beneficial landscaping practices for each of the EMS elements. The intended audience includes Federal facility staff tasked with developing an EMS and reducing the environmental impact of facility landscaping activities. The purpose of this guidance document is to assist with the addition of sustainable landscaping practices to an existing EMS or to the incorporation of sustainable landscaping into the development of an EMS.

• Presidential Memorandum on Environmentally and Economically Beneficial Practices on Federal Landscaped Grounds

• Guidance for Presidential Memorandum on Environmentally and Economically Beneficial Landscape Practices on Federal Landscaped Grounds  

• EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guideline -
  2000 Buy Recycled Series - Landscaping Products

• Great Lakes National Program Office - Green Landscaping with Native Plants

• EPA's "A Sourcebook for Native Landscaping for Public Officials"

• National Site for the USDA Regional IPM Centers Information System

• National Park Service Integrated Pest Management Program

• National Park Service's Integrated Pest Management Manual