Denia Park mowing
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A city worker mows the fields Tuesday at Denia Park. Denton is piloting a new organic pest management program at Denia Park that ends the use of glyphosate, which has been linked to cancer. If the project is successful, it will likely be replicated throughout the city.

 Jeff Woo/DRC

Denton will end its use of glyphosate herbicide and is piloting an integrated pest management program that includes some organic methods for city parks, ballfields and playgrounds.

The change follows a yearlong review and rewrite of the city’s 18-year-old integrated pest management program that allowed the herbicide, popularly known as Roundup, in limited applications. A committee made up of experts from the universities, parks maintenance employees and community members Ed and Carol Soph conducted the review. The program resembles a similar program recently adopted in Austin.

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881 and via Twitter at @phwolfeDRC.

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