4 SportsTurf | May 2015 www.sportsturfonline.com
May 2015 | Volume 31 | Number 5
FEATURES
Facilities & Operations
8 Guidelines for employee documentation
12 Managing parks in an urban environment
16 Battle burnout: address 6 motivators for enjoying work
18 Between a rock and a hard place
The SportsTurf Interview
20 Eric Fasbender, CSFM, Louisiana State University
Field Science
22 Selecting your soil physical testing lab
24 All varieties are not the same when it comes to salinity
30 Building quality turf starts with healthy soil
32 Stabilized natural turf system types and benefits
Tools & Equipment
34 Proper reel mower maintenance critical to field quality
35 Orioles' McFadyen on growing KY blue in transition zone
Irrigation & Drainage
38 First year with new central irrigation control system:
one turf manager's story
Field of the Year
40 Schools/Parks Softball: Waukegan SportsPark, Waukegan, IL
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the Sidelines
7 STMA President's Message
15 John Mascaro's Photo Quiz
43 STMA in Action
48 Marketplace
49 Advertisers' Index
50 Q&A
Noel T. Brusius of Waukegan (IL) Parks, says
a testament to his sound maintenance and
programming working together is that an aver-
age of 2,000 games are played annually at his
SportsPark softball fields.
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