Greenscapes

Landscape architect John Charles Olmsted was mentored by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York¿s Central Park. In the early 1900s, the meticulous, visionary protégé brought his famous stepfather¿s pastoral aesthetic to premier parks throughout the Pacific Northwest¿green retreats that still refresh urban souls in Portland, Seattle, and Spokane.

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

"Today's hearing focuses on the U.S. EPA's Resource Conservation Challenge. This program, which began in 2002, is a major national effort to find flexible, yet protective, ways to conserve our natural resources. It challenges all Americans, whether they be makers of goods, sellers of goods or buyers of goods, to prevent pollution and promote recycling and the re-use of materials and to reduce the use of toxic chemicals and to preserve energy and materials"--Page 1

GreenScaping encompasses a set of landscaping practices that can improve the health and appearance of your lawn and garden while protecting and preserving natural resources.