New Hampshire LAs Greet Licensure

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By Erik Skindrud, landscapearchitect.com

After two decades of effort, New Hampshire Landscape Architects are celebrating the state?EUR??,,????'?????<

Until this month, the state was one of just three that have no legislation regulating the practice or use of the title, ?EUR??,,????'?????<

On Monday, June 5, Gov. John Lynch (D) signed HB 1458, which adds the Landscape Architecture profession to a joint regulatory board composed of engineers, architects, land surveyors, geologists and foresters. Earlier this spring, the state?EUR??,,????'?????<

The result means that professionals will need to pass a test and become officially licensed to call themselves Landscape Architects and to practice landscape architecture in New Hampshire.

Landscape Architect R. Gordon Leedy, Jr. said a core group of dedicated volunteers had worked for years to make the licensure rule a reality. Leedy has led the effort to pass New Hampshire?EUR??,,????'?????<

Local LAs have long chafed at the lack of state legislation, the latter said. Without regulation, there is no precise count of the number of Landscape Architects in the state, but there are likely more than several dozen.

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Three previous attempts to pass licensure legislation in New Hampshire were derailed by opponents with ties to land surveyors and landscape designers, Leedy told landscapearchitect.com.