DJC.COM -- Landscape Northwest 2006

Surveys Special Section Index DJC.COM

April 27, 2006

A Special Section of
DJC.COM

2006 Landscape Architecture Surveys

Stories

"Arsenic-eating ferns may clean up Puget Sound soils"
By NORM PECK
Department of Ecology

"Is this as green as Seattle gets?"
By NORA DALEY
O'Brien + Co.

"Program catalogs our fading historic landscapes"
By DUANE DIETZ
AHBL

"Veterans' cemeteries: an inspiration of place"
By MARILEE STANDER
EDAW

"Creating an urban forest in Anchorage"
By MICHELLE ARAB
Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture

"Site constrained? That's opportunity knocking"
By BRUCE DEES
Bruce Dees & Associates

Featured Stories...

Putting a forest floor up on the roof at the zoo

A new vegetated roof will help teach kids about the native Northwest biome and how we can build in the city with less environmental impact.
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Using GIS as a tool to protect Puget Sound

The development of geographic information systems (GIS) has been crucial to conservation planning efforts and the protection of natural resources and habitats in the United States.
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2006 Landscape
Architecture Surveys

Landscape Northwest 2006 team

Section editor:
Benjamin Minnick

Section design:
Jeffrey Miller

Web design:
Lisa Lannigan

Advertising:
Matt Brown

Landscape surveys:
Margie Slovan, Lynn Porter, Jon Silver, John Ryan

Seattle’s Charles Anderson Landscape Architects is designing the landscape for the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, which includes a forest of birch trees and a plaza that can be turned into an ice rink during the winter.

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