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8th Land Ethics Symposium for Professionals
“Creative Approaches for Ecological Landscaping”
Space still available!
For a brochure, click here. Registration opens January 2, 2008.
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To receive a brochure by mail or for more information, please contact Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve at (215) 862-2924 or ellis@bhwp.org.
No phone or online registrations.
New Hope, Pennsylvania – Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve presents its 8th Annual Land Ethics Symposium: Creative Approaches for Ecological Landscaping on Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The Symposium will be held at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, convenient to I-95, U.S.-1 and area airports.
Stay ahead of the curve with innovative ideas and successful solutions from experienced landscape practitioners. This informative and inspiring Symposium focuses on ways to create low-maintenance, economical and ecologically balanced landscapes using native plants and restoration techniques.
The Symposium is geared toward landscape architects, designers, contractors and other landscape/horticulture industry professionals, environmental consultants, land planners, managers and developers, and state/municipal officials. Home gardeners are welcome.
Continuing education units are available for landscape architects, landscape designers and other landscape and horticulture professionals (see brochure for details).
The fee for the Symposium is $99. The fee for fulltime students is $65. This includes a continental breakfast, refreshment break and buffet lunch. Pre-registration with payment is required.
2008 Featured Speakers
- Ann Hutchinson, Senior Director of Municipal Conservation Services, Natural Lands Trust, “Saving Places for Nature: Preserving Land in the Face of Development”
- Holly M. Harper, RLA, Director of Stewardship Planning, Natural Lands Trust, “Saving Places for Nature: Stewardship Planning for Natural Lands”
- John Peter Thompson, Chair of the Board of Behnke Nurseries Co., “Gardens Past, Present & Future: Sustainable Sites Initiative”
- Marcus de la fleur, RLA, Conservation Design Forum, “One Drop at a Time: New Paradigms for Home Gardens”
- Jennifer Ward Souder, Director of Capital Projects and Assistant Director of Queens Botanical Garden, “Queens’ Botanical Garden’s Sustainable Landscapes and Buildings Project”
- John W. Munro, Applied Ecologist and Ecological Restoration Practitioner, Munro Ecological Services, Inc., “Stormwater, Stream Restoration & Native Plants: The Ecological Context & Designer’s Challenge”
The Preserve is pleased to acknowledge the co-sponsors of the 2008 Symposium:
Premier sponsor
Partner sponsors
Sponsor
Friends
Press Contact: Nancy Beaubaire, Director of Communications (215) 862-2924
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
P.O. Box 685
New Hope, PA 18938
Phone: (215) 862-2924 Fax: (215) 862-1846
E-mail: communications@bhwp.org
www.bhwp.org
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve is managed by the Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve Association Inc., in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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