2009 ASLA Professional Awards
Award of Excellence, Analysis & Planning

Scout Island Strategic Plan

New Orleans, LA
Firm: Mossop+Michaels, New Orleans, LA
Client: City Park

Scout Island is a 62-acre site located within New Orleans City Park. The site has served as a wild area within the park and it remains a little known treasure. Free from overt maintenance, it�s a place where the checks and balances of a natural ecosystem were allowed to operate without reference.

Mossop+Michaels
Amazing site analysis and program providing a connection between city and park. The solutions are so beautiful and simple. The lack of prescription leaves it open for evolution. The landscape architect was light handed and provided a good process for the people who live there to have input into what happens.

Awards Jury

Scout Island is a 62-acre site located within City Park in the heart of New Orleans. The site has traditionally been a bird watching and wilderness preserve within the park, but Hurricane Katrina devastated the forest in 2005.  This project focuses on the establishment of a series of resilient infrastructures and highlights the need for re-establishing the ecological systems as well the educational, recreational and cultural systems of a site in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

Spackman Mossop+Michaels
Wes Michaels, Principal
Elizabeth Mossop, Principal
Jessica Pfeffer, Associate

Meffert+Etheridge
Environmental Projects
Dan Etheridge
Doug Meffert

David Baker Botanical Consulting
David Baker

Meadow Makers, Inc.
Marc Pastorek

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