Sustainability and Energy Action Plan

APPENDIX XIV: SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT SUGGESTIONS GRANTS PASS SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY ACTION PLAN A healthy ecosystem promotes the sequestration of carbon, and maintaining pollinator habitat is one way to promote a healthy ecosystem. The City could opt to allow or invite interested groups or individuals to set up small pollinator habitats on appropriate lands, such as corners of parks. This would also add to biodiversity, creating additional sustainability benefits beyond sequestration.Pollinator Hosting Program Best-Fit Irrigation Practices Water irrigation systems should be evaluated with not only efficiency but impact in mind. Inriparian locations where flood irrigation could benefit the ecosystem, perhaps it could beemployed. 169 Another useful resource is the IPM Practitioner’s often -cited 2015 Directory of IPM List of Least - Toxic Pest Control Products , a 48 -page list of chemical, physical, and mechanical methods forcontrolling a wide variety of common West Coast pests.​ In Oregon, the National Pesticide Information Center ( NPIC ), housed at Oregon State University, provides objective, science -based information about pesticides and pesticide - related topics to enable people to make informed decisions.