Grounds Maintenance

Our 170 acre campus includes beautifully landscaped grounds and one of the largest and best maintained waterfront sites in Oshkosh. The university is moving to make our grounds even more green.

History

All diesel tractors now operate with 5% bio-diesel.
The campus uses an environmentally safer ice melting chemical on sidewalks.
The campus has many native trees and other plants, and a native prairie.

New initiatives

In the summer of 2008, the campus started a new campus garden. This will be expanded in 2009 to become a community garden.
Develop a larger composting site on campus.
Increase the planting of native species.

Goals

Increase biodiversity and usable green space while reducing dependence on fossil fuels and chemical fertlizers and pesticides.
Have a substantial and productive community garden, linking the campus to the greater Oshkosh area.

What YOU can do

Become a part of our new Community Garden.

Want to know more?

Here is a link to the section of our Campus Sustainability Plan on grounds maintenance: CSP IV K - Grounds.

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by David Barnhill — last modified Feb 13, 2009 01:14 PM

Bike and Pedestrian Survey

The City of Oshkosh is updating its Pedestrian and Bicycle Circulation Plan and they are looking for public input from people who live, work, study, or recreate in Oshkosh. They have developed a website that has links to an online survey:

pedestrian_bicycle_plan

Even if you do not currently use a bike or walk to campus, completing the survey will help the city learn why you do not, or how they might improve city infrastructure.

Most of us use city facilities every day: sidewalks along streets carrying automobiles through campus are built by the city, to their current standards. The last public meeting was in August, so student and staff input was not representative of UW Oshkosh pedestrians and bicyclists. So please consider giving the city some feedback from the campus community.