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... 5 Turfgrass is commonly used as ground cover in aviation property because it can be maintained in a way that prevents sight obstruction on the airfield, allows infiltration of runoff from impervious surfaces, and is relatively inexpensive compared to such alternative ground covers as millings or stone (DeVault et al.
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... 6 grass is longer, it may provide food and shelter for small mammals that attract raptors and other predators (Washburn and Seamans 2013)
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... 7 yet they also regularly leave foraging areas shortly before sunset to return to roosting sites (Dinsmore 1973)
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... 8 Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) , and fine fescues (Festuca spp.)
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... 9 Airport Turf -- Composition: Salt Lake City International (SLC) Faced with a number of bird species -- raptors, gulls, waterfowl, shorebirds, and passerines foraging on other prey animals or the vegetation itself -- that were attracted to fallow fields near its runways, SLC implemented a project to reduce grasses and broadleaf vegetation on approximately 100 acres, using asphalt millings from runway overlays.
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... 10 Airport Turf -- Composition: John F Kennedy (JFK)

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