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Architecting Nature

8/30/2020

While researching our page on wetlands, we learned a bit more about what goes into managing complex ecosystems. Turns out, more than scientists are involved in helping the environment, and more than the volunteers and citizen scientists who help out with the work we normally think about. One of those roles that surprised us (but really makes a ton of sense) given their cross section of work between human facility and natural function.

That role is the landscape architect.

By Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA - Central Park foliage photo-walk, Nov 2009 - 10 Uploaded by Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link