Chapters Kick Off NLAM with Exciting Events
With National Landscape Architecture Month in full swing, ASLA chapters are helping to raise awareness of all that landscape architects can do.

Chapters all over the United States are diving into National Landscape Architecture Month and putting together fabulous events to gain public awareness for the profession, and also reaching out to help their communities.

The Idaho/Montana chapter’s NLAM event was a huge hit in Billings, Montana. The chapter got some great coverage on its cleanup and park restoration day at Hillner Park in the Billings Gazette. On February 8, the Yellowstone County Parks Board heard a presentation by the Lockwood Schools' Sixth Grade Leadership Class. CTA LandWorks has been helping the Continuing Education Group with its restoration plan of a nearby community park in Lockwood, Hillner Park. Robert Gollehon of CTA has been helping with the project in doing some site evaluation and mapping, and CTA LandWorks has been guiding the class through programming, site analysis, concept design, and master planning of the park. The Parks Board unanimously approved the class' request for assistance in cleaning up, lighting, and tree work in the month of April, and supported the master plan for renovation on a phased basis.
Students from the Mississippi State University chapter descended upon J. L. King Park on Sunday afternoon to participate in a park cleanup effort along with Professional Landcare Network (PLANET). The concept of the cleanup day was that the students would become familiar with the park by walking around picking up litter and interacting with park users to make plans for future improvements to the park. The positive and immediate result of this process would be that at the end of the day the park would be free of litter. In three hours the volunteers removed enough litter from the park to fill up the beds of two pickup trucks to the brim with garbage bags.

The Wisconsin chapter was given an opportunity to have 80 to 90 display boards exhibited in the capitol rotunda during the month of April. All visitors to the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, have gotten the chance to learn more about landscape architecture, the ASLA green roof, and more!

The Indiana chapter started NLAM off with a bang with many successful events, including a luncheon which nearly 30 people attended and had a great discussion of the Practice Act and the new continuing education requirement. There were also 60 Purdue and Ball State University students who experienced three landscape architecture office environments at the Office Hop.

Tickets are now available online for the Potomac chapter’s Confluence of Water and Design event. In celebration of National Landscape Architecture Month, the Potomac Chapter of ASLA invites you to a tour of four featured designs, located along Washington, D.C.'s National Mall. The tour, interpreted by the projects' contributing designers and expert fountain consultants, will describe the design process, the conceptual origins of the water features, and the multifaceted details created especially to achieve some of the unique water effects of the projects.

The tour will feature the following projects:

• National Museum of the American Indian [EDAW]
• World War II Memorial [Oehme, van Sweden & Associates]
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial [CMS Collaborative]
• George Mason Memorial [Rhodeside & Harwell]