H. T. Harvey Restoration Ecology & Landscape Architecture Division

06/25/2019

An amazing book, and what an enormous influence on the field of landscape architecture.

Ian McHarg's 1969 best-seller 'Design With Nature' transformed how people thought about humans' stewardship of the planet and fueled the environmental movement.

03/26/2019

"In a huge win for conservationists, President Trump has signed into law the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. Negotiated over the past few years, the bipartisan legislation permanently re-authorizes the Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which finances important and popular federal and state conservation and park projects. The legislation puts into law the Every Kid in a Park program, which gives 4th graders and their families free passes to national parks for a year. The bill also protects an additional 1.3 million acres of wilderness out West through the expansion of eight national parks and the creation of three new ones. And hunters and anglers applauded their new, expanded access to public lands."

In a huge win for conservationists, President Trump has signed into law the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. Negotiated over the past few years, the bipartisan leg…

03/15/2019

An oldie but a goodie...1-year old willows taking off and already beginning to add habitat value to this site near the bay edge.

02/22/2019

Fantastic ribbon-cutting event yesterday for a habitat expansion and trail improvement project in Mountain View. The public-private partnership with the City was very successful and the mayor was in attendance to help cut the ribbon. Great culmination to almost 6 years of planning and design work.

02/05/2019

The recent storms have cleared and we're back to sunny (and snowy!) California. The Santa Cruz Mountains don't often look like this...a winter wonderland.

02/04/2019

This looks to be in interesting read!

"Shaping the Postwar Landscape, edited by Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, founder and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), and Scott Craver is the fifth in a series of books that serve as an encyclopedia of landscape architects and allied professionals who made significant contributions to American landscape design. The book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in American landscape design’s roots.

While the editors set out to provide a reference guide, they’ve achieved a relatively compelling read. Professional disciplines are comprised of people, ideas, and projects. Through the fastidious profiling of American landscape pioneers, Birnbaum and Craver have encapsulated a specific period of landscape architecture in an easily consumable text."

Shaping the Postwar Landscape, edited by Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, founder and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), and Scott Craver is the fifth in a series of books that serve as an en…

01/22/2019

One year in, this small riparian mitigation site is looking like it's well on its way!

01/11/2019

A great reminder for this time of year -- keep your eye out for newts (and other critters) on your hikes.

01/03/2019

The deergrass (Muhlenbergia rigens) at a floodplain restoration site along the American River is happily establishing!

12/13/2018

A recent site visit to a riparian habitat expansion project adjacent to a trail -- the new boardwalk is finished and planting has started. Looking forward to more rain!

12/10/2018

Check out the best landscape architecture books of 2018!

If you are looking for a unique book to give as a gift or just one for yourself to delve into over the winter break, explore THE DIRT’s top 10 books of 2018, our picks for the best on the env…

12/05/2018

It's World Soil Day :-)

Check out the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' website for more information on their cool logo and this year's campaign: "be the solution to soil pollution"

http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day