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NPS Aids Qatar with First National Park

April 17, 2014 LAM Staff Leave a comment

American landscape architects helped Qataris set up a framework for their first national park, but the follow-through seemed to disappear into the dunes.

By Craig Pittman

In inlet in the Persian Gulf, in Qatar's Khor Al-Adraid region. Courtesy National Park Service. — Inland Sea in the Persian Gulf, in Qatar’s Khor Al-Adaid region. Courtesy National Park Service.

From the April 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.

We Americans sometimes take our national parks for granted. After all, we’ve got 59 of them, and they’ve been around since 1872, when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law creating the first one the world had ever seen, Yellowstone National Park. Continue reading NPS Aids Qatar with First National Park →

Environment

Raising the Road

August 6, 2013 Accounts @ Reason One Leave a comment

Water flows are restored to The Everglades.

By Craig Pittman

tamiami-trail-canal — Courtesy http://www.evergladesplan.org

For centuries the Everglades, a 70-mile-wide River of Grass, rolled smoothly southward, from the lush growth along the shores of Lake Okeechobee down to the crystal-clear waters of Florida Bay. Then in the 1920s, a crew came along with a dredge and built a massive dam. Continue reading Raising the Road →