EXPERIMENTS IN PRACTICE

TOUGH GUARDRAILS SPUR INNOVATIONS FOR AN ACCIDENTAL WETLAND.

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

At first glance, it was just a pond. Dammed with earth at the southern end, with a single small outflow pipe, the small water body on the farm in Lake County, Illinois, could have been any one of the thousands of farm ponds that dot the rural Midwest.But Rosetta S. Elkin, ASLA, and her team at Practice Landscape soon discovered that the “pond” was not fed by rainwater but by two culverts that drain neighboring farms. More surprising, it was legally considered a wetland and therefore subject to federal oversight. “Even though [it] was dug in the ’70s, it is now ensconced in the GIS databases as a wetland,” says Sarah Diamond, a project manager at Practice Landscape. For the past four years, the landscape architects have been working to revitalize…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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