Grounds
Jason Petterborg
Landscape Manager
1-208-282-5202
jasonpetterborg@isu.edu
Grounds Shop, Building 19
Sarah Hook
Landscape Foreman
1-208-282-3833
sarahhook@isu.edu
Grounds Shop, Building 19
We provide a safe, clean, and pleasant environment for students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the community to enjoy. We manage snow removal, lawn care, irrigation installation and maintenance, horticulture practices, new and improved water usage practices, campus forestry operations, sports turf care, event assistance, equipment maintenance, and landscape design and construction.
Interesting Facts
- The grounds crew plants approximately 9,800 flowers annually
- As of June 2019, there were 3,802 trees on campus
- We employ 14 full-time employees and anywhere between 20-40 student and temporary employees
- We strive to provide a pollinator friendly campus
- We remove snow from approximately 30 acres of sidewalks and steps and 45 acres of parking lots
- We mow over 100 acres of grass each week
- We have completed over 1.3 million dollars in beautification projects with the Wheatley family
Tree Walk Tour:
https://www.isu.edu/campusgismaps/pocatello/tree-walk-tour/
Rock Walk Tour:
https://www.isu.edu/campusgismaps/pocatello/rock-walk-tour/
Retirement & Memorial Tree Map: