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"Water in the Sustainable Landscape:
Conservation and Beyond"
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Monday
Night Speaker Series -
CSU Department of Horticulture
andLandscape Architecture |
NOTE ROOM
CHANGE: Lectures will be 5-6:00 p.m. on Monday
nights,
January 26 - April 5, in Natural Resources (NR)
113on the CSU campus, Fort Collins. |
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| "Water in the Sustainable Landscape:
Conservation and Beyond," is the title of a
Monday night speaker series for landscape professionals
and students sponsored by the Colorado State University
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture,
CSU Institute for the Built Environment, and the
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. |
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DATE
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SPEAKER
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TOPIC
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Paul Lander, City of Boulder
Water Conservation
Brent Mecham, Northern Colorado
Water Conservancy
John Gibson, Swingle Tree and
Lawn Care |
Water in the designed landscape: how we got here,
where we could be going |
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Roger Pielke, Sr., CSU Professor
of Atmospheric Science and Colorado's State Climatologist
David Armstrong, CU Wildlife Biologist
Thomas Stohlgren, Plant Ecologist |
Regional Environmental Change |
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Kathryn
Gleason, Cornell University
ancient origins of dry cultivation |
Historical/international perspective on water
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Prof. Gleason will discuss how pleasure
gardens have derived their design from the fundamental
practices of irrigation and water management in
their culture, in ways both practical and philosophical.
She will look at the well-known derivation of geometry
from Egyptian surveying along the Nile, but will
go on to show how other practices of arid climate
cultivation, such as check dams and terracing, have
also made their mark on gardening practices through
time. |
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Robert C. Ward, Director, CSU
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute |
Water law and local ordinances |
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Brent Mecham, No. Colo. Water
Conservancy |
Irrigation in an age of water conservation |
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Larry Roesner, CSU Professor,
Stormwater Engineer |
Stormwater as a resource, constructed wetlands |
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Jim Knopf, Author, Landscape
Architect, Boulder |
Xeriscape and bioregional design |
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Richard Hansen, Sculptor and
Landscape Architect, Pueblo |
Watermarks |
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Richard Hansen (Colorado State University-Pueblo)
writes: “As a student of poetry who became
a studio artist who then became a landscape architect,
I still try to make poems. Only the medium has changed.
The resistance of stone and the constant pulsing
of water have so shaped me, water and stone have
swept me away. My attention, my creative work, has
become more and more centered around an ongoing
series I call Watermarks. Explored in drawings,
sculptural elements, and site design; I am seeking
to make the movements and elusive character of water
legible in the designed landscape while improving
the ecological health of the site.” See: www.rhwatermarks.com |
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