SUN-A07: Western Lands Stewardship and Systems Across Scales — Revisiting Olmsted’s Legacy

Sunday, November 13, 2022

9:00am – 10:00am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 209-210

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Joanna Karaman, ASLA

Landscape Architect
OLIN
Los Angeles, California

Speaker(s)

Nicholas Pevzner, ASLA

Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jen Toy, ASLA, RLA (she/her/hers)

Lead
Test Plot
Kensington, California

In addition to urban parks and planning, part of the Olmsted legacy includes regional frameworks, land management, and park systems. Explore how current initiatives are developing frameworks for the protection of land and critical resources at a range of scales from the Pacific Northwest to Los Angeles.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand Olmsted’s State Parks Plan for California and his practice’s implications for large-scale land planning in the West.
Explore how multi-benefit lands in California could be amplified through a toolkit of adaptive management strategies, identify critical lands for protection, and which stakeholders could be united in unlikely partnerships.
Explore how timber industry practices affect rural forest economies, forest health, and fire risk in dry fire-prone forests of the PNW, and examine new configurations.
Examine how community-based land practices on a local scale can influence land ethics and ecological goals in light of climate change - rising temperatures and increased drought in Los Angeles.