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ACE Mentor Programs Update
ACE Mentor program orientations are now being scheduled for the coming year. Please check with your local ACE chapter for details.

California Southern ASLA

The Victor A. Gibeault Symposium on Turfgrass Water Conservation
September 6
University of California Riverside
Physics Building Room 2000

Turfgrass gives life to lawns, parks, cemeteries, sports fields, schoolyards, roadsides, and golf courses, providing a value added to the quality of life. Water is key to turf performance, and turfgrass scientists have been leaders in the research of developing water management strategies. In the early 1980s, Dr. Victor Gibeault organized a symposium that brought the knowledge of turfgrass water use together in a landmark publication (Turfgrass Water Conservation). The science and technologies of turfgrass water use have advanced substantially. It is time to again accumulate the broad knowledge of turfgrass water use in one place.

Symposium: $30.00 per person (Includes lunch)

For more information, contact UCR Agriculture Operations at 951-827-5906.

Aquatic System Design and Water Ecology: The Lost Connection
September 21st – 23rd
White Lotus Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA

Focus on bringing nature’s wisdom into your projects. In this creative and innovative workshop go beyond the traditional boundaries of aquatic system design and learn what works, what doesn’t, and why. The goal of this workshop is to give architects, landscape architects and designers whose work includes water features of any size the necessary tools to make informed decisions that produce beautiful, healthy and sustainable projects.

$950.00 includes lecture series, meals, and lodging.

For more information, contact Shelly Solomon at Environmental Design and Consulting, edch20@olypen.com, or at 360-385-3998.

Prairie Gateway ASLA

PGASLA would like to announce a new partnership with the Missouri Parks and Recreation Association and the Kansas Recreation and Parks Association on state-level legislative issues. The levels of support will be 1) an endorsement of letters to legislators and other elected officials that define a position or urges action on a legislative issue, and 2) participating with the MPRA and KRPA to lobby state legislators whether locally in their district or at the state capitols.

The MPRA and KRPA may elect to support PGASLA in lobbying for parks or recreation issues. This agreement stems from their experience that the three organizations agree on so many issues, that healthy parks and recreation systems result in healthy communities, and that landscape architects derive a large part of our projects (if not income) from local parks. Just as important, this provides an opportunity for the profession to be more visible to state legislators in matters directly related to public health, safety, and welfare.