Santa Fe homeowners weigh in on landscape preferences
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 20:21
in Biology & Nature
While municipalities may mandate communitywide water conservation measures, individuals -particularly homeowners -can make significant contributions to water conservation in urban environments. Hoping to provide urban planners with more information about how residents' landscape preferences affect municipal water supplies, a team from New Mexico State University surveyed homeowners in Santa Fe about their attitudes toward high desert plants. Rolston St. Hilaire, Dawn M. VanLeeuwen, and Patrick Torres reported on their study of residents' preferences for urban landscapes and water conservation strategies in a recent issue of HortTechnology.