Land Ethics

SEVENTH ANNUAL LAND ETHICS SYMPOSIUM:
CREATIVE APPROACHES FOR ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING

Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve presents its Seventh Annual Land Ethics Symposium: Creative Approaches for Ecological Landscaping on Thursday, February 15, 2007 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, convenient to I-95 and the Pennsylvania turnpike. This stimulating and informative Symposium for professionals will focus 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 members of the landscape/nursery industry, environmental consultants, land planners, managers and developers, state/municipal officials and students.

CEU’s applied for from the NJ Landscape Architect Evaluation & Examination Committee

Fee: $95; fulltime students-$65. Pre-registration required by Monday, February 5. For more information and to request a brochure, contact Hildy Ellis (215) 862-2924, ellis@bhwp.org. Brochures will be mailed in early January and available at www.bhwp.org in mid-December. Symposium is sponsored by Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, New Hope, Pennsylvania and co-sponsored by County of Bucks, Office of the Commissioners; others co-sponsors pending.

Featured Speakers:
* Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, Temple University Ambler, “Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective”
* Keith Bowers, RLA, Founder/President of Biohabitats, “Conservation Design, Best Development Practices”
* Edgar David, MLA, RLA; Principal of S. Edgar David and Assoc., “Integrating Nature, Culture and Art”
* Edmund Snodgrass, President of Emory Knoll Farms Inc. and Green Roof Plants, “Green Roofs as Living Machines”
* Dr. Roger Latham, Ecologist, Conservation Biologist and Environmental Planner, “Native Grasslands and Meadows in Pennsylvania: Their History and Current Condition”