Let's Talk Turf!

Turf management in the National Park Service (NPS) is part science, part landscape design, part historic preservation, and part sweat. 

On behalf of the nation, the NPS manages the urban greens of the National Mall and the Statue of Liberty, the sacred grounds of battlefields and cemeteries, as well as recreation fields, golf courses, orchards, and everything in between. The skilled professionals of the National Park Service come from different backgrounds and are employed in a variety of career fields, but they come together to manage a diverse and challenging array of lawn and native grasses and famous landscapes.