Reply To: To What Extent Should Ethics and Environemtnal Issues Drive Landscape Architects in their Projects

Okay so you give us one city on the east coast which requires native plants, and you have ripped a major project on the east coast, and again with the Kit fox thing. As for stewards of the landscape perhaps you are not looking in their proper areas, after numerous fires, the landscapes put back into the local hillsides of southern California are native chapparel communities, slope mitigation is composed of, coastal sage scrub plantings, local wetlands in the Bolsa Chica coastal areas are being reworked with native and non-invasive species, the Great Park in Central Orange County (which will be larger than Central Park) is in the process of integrating massive areas of native plantings, wilderness trails, and exploratory landscapes. All of these projects are done with the help of local Landscape Architects. Some of the reasons you cannot see these great works is that they use boring colorless, non-greenie plants the blend in and look as if nothing has be done, it looks natural. these are great uses for these types of plantings, if I took these same plants into a home owner and proposed them for the front yard half would laugh in my face, do not blame local Landscape architects, learn what they are doing and where you can see there work, the problem is the general public not our profession.