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Thanks for letting us know about what has happened in Alabama. This is not something new to someone that was a chairman of the Ramsey New Jersey Shade Tree Commission about 20 years ago. Along the state highway way back then I found out about the ?EUR??,,????'?????<
Robert K. Watrous
Principal
Robert K. Watrous, Landscape Architecture
Andover, N.J.
Small minds and self-serving bureaucrats never cease to amaze me! I?EUR??,,????'?????<
Kevin Parsons
President
KPA
Indianapolis, Ind.
Where do we draw the line? Why should a community, the environment and these trees that will outlive us pay the price for poor driving? Why did it not occur to anyone that maybe there is a human factor in this? Another sad day in litigious America! I would bet a large sum of money that this would not happen in any other country.
Joy Kuebler
Wenatchee, Wash.
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in the Feb. issue, we showed a graphic of a park design and failed to mention whose playground was pictured. It is a 100 percent, fully-handicapped accessible facility designed by Edsall & Associates, LLC, of Columbus, Ohio for the Neward Rotary Club at the Ohio State University Newark/Central Ohio Technical College campus. Deborah Edsall, ASLA, APA, OPRA, managing director of Edsall, notes the playground cost nearly $700,000 and has a $135,000 poured-in-place safety surface. The playground was fully funded by the Newark, Ohio Rotary Club, which also contributed thousands of hours to erect the equipment. Note: We presented the playground design of Edsall & Associates in the March 2005 LASN, a feature titled ?EUR??,,????'?????<
American Slate Company of Walnut Creek, Calif. reports the ?EUR??,,????'?????< Editor?EUR??,,????'?????< If the prairie plants were so beautiful and the native grasses so wonderful they would still be the varieties of choice. But they were not and so long as there is money to pay for alien plant varieties and grasses they will be what is used. You know feet got us everywhere we wanted to go for many years yet we still wear shoes and drive cars now too. Dave Jernigan
Phoenix, Ariz.
