To some, the term “airport turf maintenance” may sound like an oxymoron. With vast stretches of iron-flat pavement lined with thousands of white strobe lights, grass can easily get lost in an airport’s visual landscape. The reality is that proper maintenance of the grass surrounding runways plays a key role in passenger safety. Kansas City International Airport Maintenance Supervisor Doug Cartwright explains. “If the grass gets too long, you get rodents. When you get rodents, you get hawks. And when you get hawks, you get air strikes.”
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