Events Featuring Landscape Architects/CEU's offered

Here are a few upcoming events that present topics of interest for residential design practitioners, offer CEU's, and feature landscape architects as experts.

PENNSYLVANIA: Upcoming Seminar for Landscape Professionals:"Native Landscape Design: Reality Versus Perception"
January 31 & February 1, 2006 at Villanova University, Villanova, PA Continuing Education Units for Landscape Architects will be offered

Each year this symposium features expert speakers who share innovative ideas and practices for designing naturalistic landscapes.
Topics for this year's symposium include how people perceive nature, human activity and whether it is compatible with a healthy forest ecosystem, landscape disturbance as a management tool and creative ways to reduce garden maintenance.
Featured speakers include David Foster, director of the 3000-acre Harvard Forest at Harvard University, Gerould Wilhelm, a renowned botanist and teacher of ecological restoration and stewardship from the Chicago area, and Carol Franklin, FASLA, principle with Andropogon Associates, a Philadelphia-based firm that offers landscape architecture services from an ecological perspective.
The conference is designed to bring together people from a variety of disciplines including landscape architecture and design, horticulture, ecology, and botany.
Click here for complete brochure with registration form. You can print the registration form and fax it to 215-247-7862. (pdf, requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
Sponsored by the Connecticut College Arboretum, the Morris Arboretum, New Directions in the American Landscape, and the PA/DE Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

INDIANA: P.L.A.N.T.S 2006 - Annual INLA Conference and Tradeshow
January 4-6, 2006 at the Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN

This event is just around the corner but it is interesting to note that two landscape architects are featured speakers at this event, Greg Pierceall and Sandra Y. Clinton, FASLA. Greg is presenting a pre-show seminar and Sandra is the featured speaker for the ASLA Luncheon.