​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.

Great outside forces
May push your path astray, but
Cannot staunch your growth

The hopeful seedling
Looks skyward, for even trees
Aspire to be grand

​Ebbs with the flow so
Glowing off the mid-morn sun
A flair of fowl fair

​Home is a blur to
The wayward seedling, hopeful
Of new beginning