The Truckee River is the gem of our region! Check out 3 new ways to care for the Truckee, without leaving your neighborhood.
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2. Join us for the Lake Park Wetlands Project Unveiling on October XX at 4pm.
These three newly-installed floating islands will enhance Lake Park’s plant diversity, increase pollinator and insect habitat, and create an underwater ecosystem where beneficial microbes can grow and pull pollutants and problematic nutrients from the water.
This is a FREE and family-friendly event.
Light refreshments will be served.
40 Coleman Drive, Reno
3. Learn more about River Friendly Living.
Visit Lake Park's River Friendly Living (RFL) Demonstration Garden, watch native plants change with the seasons… and consider how they might look in your yard.
Want help making RFL changes at home? Contact us at info@onetruckeeriver.org or or 775-450-5489
Or, learn more about River-Friendly Living Practices online: including Firescaping, Fall Pest Prevention, Water Pollution Prevention, Native Plant Alternatives, and how your home garden can help keep the Truckee River clean and beautiful.
Funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Nevada Division of Environmental Protection with support from the City of Reno and Friends of Lake Park.
Firescaping
Want to breathe easy knowing you and your yard are prepared? In this, we’ll cover how Firescaping your yard can play an important role in promoting a healthy watershed while protecting your home from fire.
But before we dive into the details of Firescaping , let’s discuss the effects fire can have on our watershed…
Native Plant Alternatives for 5 Common Landscaping Plants
River-Friendly Yards seek to protect the Truckee River from afar, both by using water wisely and by reducing pollutants that could flow down the storm drain and into the river. We can achieve both of these goals by using more native plants in our yards.
Native plants are adapted to our local climate and soils. This means that they usually require less water and fertilizers than many common landscaping plants. If you incorporate them into your yard, that can save you money on your water bill and reduce the potential for fertilizers and pesticides washing down the storm drain. They also provide more habitat and food resources for local wildlife and pollinators.
Fall Pest Prevention
Fall is the time of year when a lot of garden pests try to seek shelter for the winter. Unfortunately, they often consider our homes as an ideal over-wintering option.
From mice to spiders to box elder bugs, everyone seems to invade when the temperatures start to drop in the Truckee Meadows…
Water Pollution, Be Part of the Solution
It looks like warmer weather is headed our way, and who doesn’t love to visit the Truckee River on a warm summer day? We are so lucky to have a clean river to swim in or picnic by, but we all have to do our part to keep it that way and reduce water pollution. And it starts in our yards.
We’ve talked a bit about non-point source pollution before (check out our Stormwater 101 blog), but when it comes to our yards, there are a few pollutants of concern you can really help reduce: nitrogen and phosphorus.