2016
• Kelly Comras, author of Ruth Shellhorn, the first volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series, describes her campaign to save Shellhorn’s papers.
• The Los Angeles landscape architecture firm founded by Mia Lehrer is profiled by Sarah Allaback, who discusses the office’s unique focus on community advocacy in the region.
• Robin Karson writes about the first landscape architect to establish a national practice based on principles of environmental design in Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner.
• Landscape architect Darrel Morrison tells the story of the Stella Niagara Preserve, a twenty-nine-acre parcel on the eastern border of the Niagara River.
• The unique challenge of “maintaining change” at the James Rose Center is featured in a preservation profile by Sarah Allaback.
• Francis R. Kowsky traces the legacy of Andrew Jackson Downing, from Highland Gardens, his home and office in Newburgh, NY, to Fairsted, the Olmsted office in Brookline, MA.
• Landscape historian James O’Day contributes a profile of Jean and Scott Peterson, 2016 LALH Preservation Heroes.