ACE Mentoring Volunteer Opportunities Available!

Whether you are heading downtown for work, or play, light rail is making tracks this year at ACE mentoring. The light rail theme will help you and high school students learn more about a light rail coming your way.* Take the students on local field trips, talk with other professionals and bea leader respresenting the Landscape Architecture professional in the ACE Mentor Program of Indiana.

This is the first year for Landscape Architects in Indiana and we are proud to partner with a NationalMentoring Organization. The ACE program is a unique partnership among industry professionals, including landscape architects, construction managers, engineers and architects, who work together to attract young people to their professions. Please go to www.acementor.org to sign up for this years rail pass. Once on the web site, select the mentor tab on the top left of page and go to the application form. Submit the form and contact Eric Rolle to let so he can add you to the roster for schools. This will take you about 5 minutes. Plan to have fun! DO NOT do the Lexus Nexus Screening Background Check. The screening is done through IPS.

Erica Rolle is the ACE mentor Indiana coordinator contact:
erolle@newindianapolisairport.com
317-496-9125

To learn more about INASLA involvement, please contact:
Daryn Fair, ASLA, RLA
daryn.fair@gmail.com
317-578-4462

Thank you for your participation, we are looking forward to a great year!

The Environmental Habitat Steward Certificate Program

The Environmental Habitat Steward Certificate Program is designed for professionals including landscape architects, planners, architects, engineers, contractors, and developers. Participants will learn fundamental concepts in habitat management and current practices that can be used to preserve or enhance habitats. After this training, participants will be able to apply environmental principles to their traditional professional methods in creative and innovative ways based on the needs of particular project. CE credits are offered.

Please see www.indianawildlife.org/workshops.htm for more information."

This program is offered by the Indiana Wildlife Federation.

16th Annual INASLA Golf Outing

On Wednesday August 19 INASLA, along with the help of several sponsors, pulled off the 16th Annual INASLA Golf Outing. We had a wonderful day out at Prestwick Golf Course and the weather cooperated beautifully. Well at least it did after about an hour.

A special thanks should go out to Julie Zigler with Irrigation Design Source for pulling the entire event together. This was the first year Julie couldn't be with us on the actual day of the golf outing, but thank you to April Westcott (Irrigation Design Source) and Jhennifer Sanchez (Smock Fansler Corporation) for standing in for Julie and doing a wonderful job! Also thank you for keeping us all hydrated and well fed during the day.

Now on to the final standings for the day!
Congratulations to our big winners with an impressive score of 68!

ESL Team
Randy Belden, Eric Simons, Eric Carter & Nick Oskay

You should all give yourself a round of applause for a great game of golf!

Forms + Surfaces Team
Mike Shanley, Gary Carpenter, Mike Terry & David Klauba
(still impressive score of 69!)

Pine Hall Brick Team
Bernie Dahl, Ed Curtin, Bill Brown, Daryn Fair
(score of 70!)

Firestone Specialty Products Team
Bill Johnston, Dan Adler, Time Pancake, Deane Rundell
(score of 70!)


Smock Fansler Corporation Team
Tom Fansler, Dan Syrus, Cory Daly, Andrew Livingston
(score of 71!)


Irrigation Design Source Team
David Gorden, Lisa Dunaway, Katie Clark, Rachel Uthe
(score of 72!)


Landscape Forms Team
Josh Schmackers, Blake Herbst, Greg Wade, Pete Fritz
(score of 78!)


K-Rain Team
David Byers, Randy Royer, MJ Meneley, Ben Jennings
(score of 82, and incredibly well dressed)

Again a huge thank you to all of our sponsors for the day. Without you the event wouldn't have been nearly as much fun or successful!

Landscape Architecture Rising: ENR Article on Landscape Architecture!

Need to stop flooding or reduce stormwater runoff and sewer overflows? Looking to ease demand on treatment plants and avoid the cost of expansion? Seeking cleaner air or water? Interested in recharging an aquifer, rebuilding a shoreline or remediating a brownfield? Trying to stem highway pollution? Need to rebalance a watershed or ecosystem?

If so, a landscape architect may be in your future. The design professional—until recently derided as little more than a glorified gardener—is on a campaign to reclaim a seat at the environmental cleanup table. Some are even bent on sitting at the head, leading the engineers.

The movement is variously called performance-based, ecological, sustainable or green landscape architecture. Some use the terms “landscape infrastructure” or “landscape urbanism”. A rose by any name would smell as sweet, not only to landscape architects, long suffering from low self-esteem, but to localities seeking economical, less invasive and more beautiful ways to deal with the poisons of development. Read the whole story.

HUD, DOT, and EPA Form Partnership to Forward Sustainable Communities

Unprecedented partnership indicates a new activism regarding issues important to the landscape architecture profession. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced a new partnership to help American families in all communities—rural, suburban, and urban—gain better access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and a healthy environment. “This is an even stronger indication that the new administration and these agencies are serious about issues that are important to the landscape architecture profession,” said ASLA Executive Vice President and CEO Nancy Somerville. At a meeting of the Smart Growth Partners hosted by the EPA on June 17, Marcia Mulkey, acting associate administrator of the EPA’s Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovations, portrayed the partnership as evidence of the administration’s commitment “to active governing around the issues of smart growth and sustainability.” Earlier this year, HUD and DOT announced an unprecedented agreement to implement joint housing and transportation initiatives. With EPA joining the partnership, the three agencies will work together to ensure that these housing and transportation goals are met while simultaneously protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change. DOT, HUD, and EPA have created a high-level interagency partnership to better coordinate federal transportation, environmental protection, and housing investments and to identify strategies that: provide more transportation choices promote equitable, affordable housing increase economic competitiveness support existing communities leverage federal investment enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods—rural, urban, or suburban Among the HUD/DOT/EPA partnership’s goals: enhance integrated planning and investment provide a vision for sustainable growth redefine housing affordability and make it transparent redevelop underused sites develop livability measures and tools align HUD, DOT, and EPA programs undertake joint research, data collection, and outreach Find a more detailed announcement online at http://www.dot.gov/affairs/2009/dot8009.htm.

ASLA Annual Meeting: Register Today!

Join us in Chicago, September 18–21, for the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo. Both the website and the print brochure you will receive in early June contain all the info you need to register for the meeting, plan your travel, and book your hotel room.

The theme of our meeting is Beyond Sustainability: Regenerating Places and People. We’ve been anticipating public sentiment to turn to the need for sustaining the planet for many years. As landscape architects, we must go beyond and aspire to adopt practices that not only sustain but regenerate our ecosystems and restore diminishing biohabitats.

Programming is crafted around our theme to challenge and inspire the more than 5,000 attendees who will gather in Chicago. This meeting offers more than 125 sessions—a record in the history of ASLA—from which we may choose to earn more than 21 Professional Development Hours.

While the economic downturn has delayed our vision of green infrastructure, signs of optimism are emerging daily. The education session schedule is replete with programs on how firms are coping—and even thriving: from marketing strategies to direction on where to find new clients and projects to how to track stimulus funding opportunities. The

ASLA EXPO—the largest product display in the industry—will feature nearly 400 exhibitors, many of whom will be new to our show. We’ll recognize current and future leaders of the profession with honors and awards. And we’ll connect with our colleagues from across the country and around the world at special events throughout the weekend.

Every effort has been made to reduce costs as much as possible.

Register early and save significantly on registration rates. Ticket prices for the LARE workshops, tours, and field sessions are less expensive than last year. Air or train fare to Chicago is affordable from any point in the country. And our hotel room rates are extremely competitive. All of this is tax deductible for the individual or business, to the extent allowed by law.

The first 300 full registrants will receive a free ASLA shirt (up to $34 value), and all full registrants for the meeting will receive a complimentary one-year digital subscription to

Landscape Architecture magazine.

Join us in Chicago as we learn to go beyond sustainability to regenerate places and people.
See you in September!

Angela Dye, FASLA

ASLA President

INASLA Annual Meeting Key Note Speaker Announced!

Kaid Benfield is director of NRDC's smart growth and transportation program, which supports innovative solutions to sprawl and automobile dependence. Kaid is a founder and former vice chair of Smart Growth America, a national coalition working on smarter land development policy. His numerous publications include Solving Sprawl (2001) and Once There Were Greenfields (1999), NRDC's definitive books about smart growth and sprawl. He has also led NRDC's land program and its forestry and agriculture projects, and served as NRDC's legal affairs coordinator. He is a graduate of Emory University and Georgetown University Law Center.

Visit his blog and see what he has to say! http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/