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Amanda Bower, ASLA, and Todd Bjerkaas, ASLA, have joined Design Concepts of Colorado. Bower will serve as a landscape architect and planner while Bjerkaas will serve as a landscape architect.
           
Ray Gibbs, ASLA, has joined Chas. H. Sells, Inc. (SELLS) in their Mooresville, North Carolina office as its Senior Landscape Architect and Urban Land Planner. Gibbs will lead the expansion of the Landscape Architecture, Land Planning and Urban Design efforts at this location. SELLS’ Mooresville office offers a full range of land development services to both private and public clients. Gibbs joins SELLS with 25-years of professional experience in all aspects of land design, development and regulations.

In Appreciation

"Officers of the American Society of Landscape Architects present at the presentation of Honorary Membership in the Society to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at a White House ceremony on April 25, 1968 included -left to right- Meade Palmer, Stuart Mertz, Hubert Owens, George Patton, Theodore Osmundson, Alfred B. LaGasse, Edward Ballard, and Campbell Miller." LAND, June 1968.

Former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, Honorary ASLA, died July 11, 2007 in her Austin, Texas, home. She was 94. First Lady Johnson was a tireless advocate for preserving the environment and native plant species. Her most well known advocacy took the form of the Highway Beautification Bill she spearheaded in 1965. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which she founded in 1982, has also been called "a wonderful model" for what botanic gardens should be. The Wildflower Center has partnered with ASLA on the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Visit the Wildflower Center's tribute site to learn more about her life and work.