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ContributorsThe Taro CompanyJacobsen, a Textron

CompanyAlvis MaterialsBallard SportsCarolina Green Corp.Dupont Turf BlanketsGreensgroomer World

Wide, Inc.Jensen Landscape

ServicesKeystone Athletic Field

Managers OrganizationLidochem, Inc.Nu-Gro Technologies, Inc.Ohio Chapter STMA

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Tuckahoe Turf Farms, Inc.

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Narval LunanRandall MadduxPaul ManubayJames McComasJohn O'NeillBrian PetonicDusty RobinsonJeff Salmond, CSFMMonty SowellBarry StewartBrian TylerJohn VarrassiChristopher WeaverMichael WeddleMark WeekleyRon WeingartzJohn WetzelMichael WilsonLarry Wittkopf

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STMA Presents Awards atBaseball Winter Meetings

STMA members Steve Horne, Dennis Klein, Greg Elliott, and ChadOlsen are the Sports Turf Managers of the Year for their classifications in MinorLeague Baseball (MLB). The awards are sponsored by STMA for MLB and werepresented by STMA President Bob Campbell, CSFM, at the Baseball WinterMeetings in Anaheim at an awards ceremony on last December.

Horne of the Memphis Redbirds, (Pacific Coast League) is the Triple A win-ner; Klein of the Round Rock Express (Texas League) was selected as theDouble-A winner; Elliott of the Lake County Captains (South Atlantic) won theClass A honor; and Olsen of the Aberdeen IronBirds (New York-Penn) is the win-ner from the short-season leagues.

In recent years, all 16 leagues have selected a top sports turf manager forrecognition by Major League and Minor League Baseball. STMA's four winnersare selected from these league winners. In addition to being named Sports TurfManager of the Year for their respective leagues, the winners were judged on cri-teria that includes: the playability, appearance, and use of the field; game day rou-tine; personnel and budget management; career goals; support of the industry;letters of reference from the league president and general manager; and thedevelopment and implementation of a comprehensive, agronomically soundmaintenance program.

STMA and the MLB have partnered to raise the visibility of the work ofsports turf managers.

STMA and NIAAA Partner for Safer Athletic FieldsA partnership between the STMA and the National Interscholastic Athletic

Administrators Association (NIAAAl, the professional organization for high school,middle school, and junior high athletic directors, was officially adopted at the fallSTMA Board meeting after a year of mutual interest and discussion.

That partnership grew from a desire to open educational and informational

channels about safety and sports field management challenges facing NIAAAmembers. As an education partner, STMA offers to NIAAA members access tolocal sports field managers who can provide technical knowledge and advice.This will be helpful to those athletic directors who do not have an STMA memberat their school.

NIAAA's mission to promote the growth and image of interscholastic athleticadministrators and to develop state athletic administrator organizations tostrengthen the interscholastic athletic program of each state. The organization is

closely aligned with the National Federation of StateHigh School Associations and state athletic adminis-trators' organizations as well as individual athleticadministrators.

NIAAA members can contact STMA headquar-ters to be referred to a local member. Through thispartnership, STMA members are also available tospeak at NIAAA events. To further the networking,STMA will provide contact information for local schoolathletic directors to our chapters so that they caninvite them to field days and other educational eventsthroughout the year. This networking should help tofurther their understanding of local sports field man-agement issues, NIAAA state education coordinatorshave been provided a complimentary subscription toSPORTSTURF magazine as another educational tool.]

In addition, each organization will share informa-tion and promote each other's events, such as atten-dance at their respective annual conferences. STMAparticipated at the NIAAA annual conference inDecember as an exhibitor and provided an instructorto co-teach" Athletic Administration: Athletic FieldManagement," a post-conference symposium. STMAis aggressively pursuing other partnerships to helpadvance the visibility and importance of its membersto the sports world. ST

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New ChapterA new chapter has joined STMA. The New

England Sports Turf Managers Association brings thetotal to 27 chapters. This chapter will represent theNew England states and provide strong local net-working and educational opportunities for STMAmembers. Welcome to STMA!

Chapter AffiliationAgreement in Place

At the fall STMA Board meeting theBoard approved the new Chapter Affiliationand Chapter Fee Agreements. All currentSTMA affiliated chapters have been asked tosign a copy of the agreement and return it toSTMA headquarters by Feb. 7, 2005, tomaintain their affiliation. This new agree-ment is a simplified version of the older onethat can be found in the Chapter ComplianceHandbook for comparison. If you have anyquestions please contact Abby McNeal,CSFM, Mike Andresen, CSFM, or STMAheadquarters.

The new chapter bylaws and agree-ment means a totally different approach tohow the STMA administers chapters. Thechapter relations committee took a hard lookat what chapters have been looking for from STMAand then formulated the new agreement. Please con-tinue to forward comments and suggestions to AbbyMcNeal, CSFM or to STMA Headquarters.

The changes include:

* Chapters will no longer be required to pay the$10.00 dues per non-national member to STMA.

* Chapters will pay a flat fee to STMA for theservices. This new fee structure equitably balancesthe chapters' payment responsibility, resulting insome chapters paying a slightly higher fee and otherspaying a slightly lower fee and still others payingapproximately the same.

* Chapters can use Headquarters for chapterbillings for an additional fee.

Chapters can customize their needs/servicesfrom STMA headquarters. The agreement alsoassists newly forming chapters to gradually worktoward the standard cost of an affiliated chapter, over2 years.

affiliation will benefit the members of both STMA andChapter along with the entire sports turf industry.

Article 1: Chapters will be governed by theirexisting bylaws and board of directors. STMA willremain a separate organization from Chapter and willexist and operate per their existing bylaws. Anyamendments to Chapter bylaws must be reported toSTMA's Board of Directors prior to approval.

Article 2: As specified by Chapter bylaws,Chapter will operate with a President, Vice-President,

receive copies of all other STMA affiliated chaptersnewsletters as published. (Provided that the chapterproduces a newsletter)

Article 7: Chapter aqreesto be classified as anSTMA affiliated chapter. This classification allows theChapter to have the privileges of other existing STMAchapters such as: using the STMA logo in chapteradvertising for your specific activities; STMA promo-tional marketing materials; use of the membershipmanagement system; chapter web site linking; partic-

ipating in conference calls with other chap-ters; and one, 1-year complimentary STMAMembership to use as the organization(Chapter) sees fit.

Article 8: Chapter agrees to pay STMAthe Chapter affiliation fee of $550 that isdetermined by the STMA Board ofDirectors.

Article 9: Chapter shall provide a finan-cial report at the end of each fiscal yearApril 15; a copy of which shall be sent tothe STMA Treasurer. Chapter will complywith Tax laws requiring tax return filingyearly.

Article 10: Chapter will agree to beincorporated within the State that it isestablished within and will file any requiredState Tax reports.

Article 11: Chapter members, Chapter officers,and directors will be covered under the current STMAliability insurance coverage currently offered the otherSTMA affiliated Chapters.

Article 12: Chapter will agree to operate withinthe chapter compliance as stated below:

* A chapter found to be operating in conflict withthe chapter procedures or bylaws will be notified inwriting of its specific areas of non-compliance andwill have a 90-day probationary period to come intocompliance.

A. Probation

If a chapter meets the compliance requirementswithin a 90-day period, it will receive written noticethat the probationary status been terminated.

B. RevocationIf a chapter does not come in to compliance

within the 90-day period, its affiliation will be auto-matically revoked.

Article 13: In the event that the Chapter disbandsall remaining funds shall be transferred to a STMABoard approved designated foundation that is in goodstanding with the IRS (501 (c) 3 recommended).

Article 14: This agreement will commence onthe date listed below and will be reviewed byChapter and STMA boards and officers on an annualbasis.

Sports Turf Managers AssociationAffiliation Agreement

(Effective January 2005)Purpose: The purpose of this agreement is to

formally establish a working organization affiliationbetween the Sports Turf Managers Association(STMA) and Chapter Sports Turf Managers

Association (Chapter). Both organizations are recog-nized leaders in strengthening the sports turf industryand enhancing their member's competence andacknowledging their professionalism. The proposed

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Treasurer, Secretary, and a Board of Directors.Chapter will maintain its existing committee structurewith appropriate chairs. Elections of Chapter officersshall be held in accordance with the Chapter'sbylaws.

Article 3: Chapter agrees to maintain a minimumof 25 active Chapter members. Chapter membersthat become STMA members will be entitled to allthe benefits of current STMA members. Chapter willprovide STMA headquarters with an updated mem-bership list quarterly.

Article 4: Chapter will promote the benefits ofbecoming an STMA member to its membership.

* Chapter will promote STMA in the (newslet-ter), at the annual and at all workshops. STMA mem-bership applications (provided by STMA) will beincluded to all Chapter members along with Chaptermembership renewal information.

* STMA will promote Chapter to its member-ship, within the chapter news section, throughout theyear via STMA website, SPORTSTURF magazine, andthrough its newsletter. Chapter President or repre-sentative will be included in Chapter Relations confer-ence calls and at the annual Chapter Officer TrainingSession (held in conjunction with the annual STMAConference and Trade Show).

Article 5: Chapter is encouraged to hold twomember meetings per year, which will be determined

by their current board of directors.Article 6: Chapter agrees to exchange copies of

its newsletters with STMA headquarters and all otherSTMA affiliated Chapters as published. Chapter will

Chapter EventsFor information on upcoming chapter events, go

to www.sportsturfmanager.com and click on thechapters tab.

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Recovering from ~~Waterworld"should be removed with shoveling, hosing, power washing, etc. In some casesdebris and soil material can be blown off the surface with a blower. The airflowfrom the blower can also hasten the soil drying process. If the grass does notbegin to green up by the time the soil begins to dry out, it may be a sign thatthe turf is dead or that it is so severely set back that regrowth is going to bevery slow. Given enough time, Bermudagrass will grow back from almost anyflooding damage. But if the damage is more than just a thin turf, and time is anissue, it may be better to start over completely.

If the damage is not too severe, begin aerification once the area can sup-port a lightweight aerifier or tractor-mount-ed aerifier. Not only will this alleviate com-paction, but also it will help break up thesoil layers and get more oxygen into therootzone. If the flooding was associatedwith a salt-water storm surge, then leach-ing the saltwater out of the rootzone maybe necessary. It is not unusual for Floridato self-flush the rootzone with additionalrainfall. In the absence of rainfall, the irriga-tion system may used to dilute and movethe salts below the rootzone.

Once the water has subsided and therootzone begins to dry, initiate a normalgrow-in fertilization and irrigation programappropriate for your grass and soil condi-tions. Do not expect much residual activityfrom previously applied preemergence her-bicides. And the moving floodwaters mayhave replenished your weed seed bank.Plan on increasing your post-control weedprogram or if you are growing in aBermudagrass you can apply an oxadiazonpreemergence herbicide without any signif-icant delay in grow-in. Remember to notapply a preemergence herbicide if you planon overseeding with a ryegrass in the nearfuture.

Long-term problems will also reflectthe type of initial storm damage. With rain-fall and irrigation, salt damage should befairly short-term. If topsoil was eroded andreplaced before renovation, there may besome long-term variation in turf growthand color due to differences in soil. Also,and silt and clay deposits that were notremoved may result in long-term visual andperformance differences. Regular aerifica-tion and topdressing should address these

problems over time. Let's hope that 2005's hurricane season does not addmore salt to the wound. ST

Due to the hurricanes this year (2004) I had several fields that wereeither partially or fully submerged. After the water receded, most of my fieldsseem to look ok. I have some yellow turf, but it seems to be coming back. Ihave one field that will probably require replanting. My question relates to shortterm and long term damages: Should I be expecting some particular symptomsthis winter as a result of the turf being under water?

uring the last active hurricaneseason, I had several phonecalls and e-mails from Florida's

turf managers with questions related toflooded turf areas. In general, the mostheavily damaged areas from flooding weregolf courses and home lawns along theFlorida coast. The more severe turf damagewas from the storm surge pounding turfwith salty water. In many cases once thewater subsided and the ground began todry, the turf died from salt injury.

Luckily, most athletic fields are notimmediately adjacent to the coast. But thehigh rainfall rate and the fact that theground was already saturated from previ-ous storms meant widespread flooding inmany coastal and inland areas of Florida.Hurricane Ivan also brought similar damageto lower Alabama and southern Mississippi.

Over the years there have been sever-al reports related to turf injury from sub-mersion. The degree of injury depends onturfgrass species, water temperature, dura-tion of submergence, and depth of submer-gence. Observations have indicated thatturfgrass can withstand submersion for upto 60 days when water temperatures arebelow 50 degrees. On the other hand, turfcan be killed in one day when water tem-peratures are in the high 80s or higher.Submersion injury also increases when theentire plant is submerged. If the plant issubmerged for a more than a few daysunder water cloudy with silt, clay, anddebris it is more damaging than if thewater is clear.

In addition, floodwaters may containtoxic contaminants such as salts or petroleum. These may cause longer-termproblems because the contaminant may linger in the soil, impeding regrowth.Even low levels of salts can indirectly affect plants by reducing water uptake orby causing an imbalance of plant nutrients. And while it may seem minor, thelack of oxygen to the roots brought on by saturated soils may cause turf loss.

Understanding the cause of your damage helps in developing a plan to ren-ovate the turf. If the floodwaters deposited silts and clays on the surface, these

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