James F. Ritzer Title: Retired Landscape Development Program Manager Company: Wisconsin Department of Transportation Location: Madison Education: BS, University of Minnesota Most Notable Projects: ?EUR??,,????'???? Employed youth through Wisconsin Conservation Corps and Student Landscape Architects to improve roadsides and roadside sites throughout Wisconsin ?EUR??,,????'???? Joined with Veterans Administration and Historical Society to site and develop more than 20 Veterans Historical Markers throughout the state ?EUR??,,????'???? Work with retired iron miners in northern Wisconsin to design and develop a monument to iron mining at a new Welcome Center at Hurley, Wisc. Years in Profession: 42 Member of ASLA Since: 1984 ASLA Chapter: Wisconsin Category: Administrative Work "In transportation, Landscape Architects must involve themselves in the design development process or be relegated to the task of trying to make someone else's work look pretty."