Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equip parks and recreation departments, municipalities, urban design and landscape architecture firms, and advocacy organizations to enhance capacity and build equitable, healthy, and engaged communities.

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ASLA Climate Action Field Guide for practitioners
American Society of Landscape Architects
This Field Guide supports the three topics of the ASLA Climate Action Plan: Practice, Equity, and Advocacy.
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ASLA Climate Action Plan
American Society of Landscape Architects
To get on a pathway to zero emissions, ASLA is taking a significant step forward with this Climate Action Plan.
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Parks for All
Canadian Parks & Recreation Association
Action Plan For Canada’s Parks Community
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Action Planner
Canadian Parks & Recreation Association
Companion to Parks for All
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Community PARKnerships Program FY21 Year in Review
Austin Parks and Recreation Department
PARD, in collaboration with over 48 nonprofit partners and community groups, leveraged funds towards improvements and maintenance of parkland
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Pittsburgh Parks Plan
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Part of a suite of tools developed by PIttsburgh Parks Conservancy for Pittsburgh Parks in maintenance, rehabilitation, capital, programming.
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Austin’s Cities Connecting Children to Nature
Outlines partnership strategies and steps for cross-sector planning to ensure all children have abundant and equitable access to nature.
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Ten-Year Urban Forestry Action Plan: 2016 -2026
By Kathy McGlauflin- American Forests Foundation, Tanya Denckla Cobb- University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation
Developed to expand awareness of the benefits of urban forests as green infrastructure and increase investments in urban forest resources.
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Racial Equity Action Plan
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has been working on equity, inclusion and diversity since 2011. Currently, three areas of work – Racial Equity…
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Hidden Valley Regional Park Off-Leash Management Plan
Washoe County
This document is an off-leash dog management plan for Hidden Valley Regional Park in Washoe County, Nevada.