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LAs and Students Help with Montana University Arboretum Design05-04-07 | News
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LAs and Students Help with Montana University Arboretum Design




Idaho-Montana ASLA Chapter members and landscape architect students at the University of Montana tackled designed an arboretum for the university during the chapter?EUR??,,????'?????<

Trivia question: Where is the Montana Arboretum? Well, in 1991, the Montana Legislature designated it be on the University of Montana campus in Missoula, but omitted a few significant details?EUR??,,????'?????<

When Philip Maechling of the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants learned the Idaho-Montana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects was hosting its annual conference (?EUR??,,????'?????<

The challenges are creating an aesthetically pleasing and functional design, within the constraints of the topography, soil conditions and water issues, while not treading on future building projects.

Perry Brown, dean of forestry and conservation and chair of the UM Arboretum Committee, noted the campus has over 2,000 trees, only recently mapped. He aspires for the arboretum to be a place for research, education and an asset for the students and community.

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