Colorado Chapter of the ASLA Celebrates Stewardship
with Their Annual Jane Silverstein Ries Award

By Jodie Carter, regional editor

Colorado chapter ASLA members: Left to right, Bob Smith, DHM Design, treasurer; Lynn Moore, Davis Partnership, vice-president; and Cathe Mitchell, Land Mark Design, president. PHOTOS COURTESY JOHN M. BIRKLEY, ASLA

Jane Silverstein Ries has designed Colorado landscapes since 1932, and has designed more than 1,500 landscapes in the region. Ries is valued for her integrity, creativity and sensitivity to the impacts of landscape architecture on the environment. In 1983, the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (CCASLA) celebrated Ries?EUR??,,????'??? impact and achievements in landscape architecture. As a result, the Jane Silverstein Ries (JSR) Award Committee was founded. The organization is lead by a board of volunteers who serve a three-year term.

The JSR board of directors makes its decisions based on several factors including: impact on the Rocky Mountain region, pioneering effort, scope of accomplishment, demonstrated sense of land-use awareness, long-term accomplishment and compatibility of accomplishments to goals of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Pat Schuler, Colorado chapter ASLA secretary, presenting award to Denver Water, water conservation division.

Previous Jane Silverstein Ries Award recipients:

1983   Jane Silverstein Ries, CCASLA award
1984   Joanne Ditmer, environmental columnist for the Denver Post
1985   Joe Shoemaker, chairperson, Platte River Greenway Foundation
1986   George Kelly, Rocky Mountain horticulturist
1987   Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs
1988   Colorado Inactive Mine Reclamation program
1989   Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
1990   The Nature Conservancy
1991   The Park People
1992   Citizens for Great Outdoors Colorado
1993   Ralph Tripani, Colorado Department of Transportation
1994   Don and Carolyn Etter
1995   Maggie Fox
1996   Ray Printz and the Jefferson County Open Space program
1997   Tweet Kimball
1998   The Honorable Wellington E. Webb, mayor of Denver
1999   Terry Minger
2000   John Fielder, nature photographer and political activist
2001   Water Conservation Section, Denver Water
2002   Trust for Public Land: Colorado Division

The Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation awards annual academic scholarships to landscape architecture students, one from Colorado State University and another from the University of Colorado at Denver. As funds grow, so will the amount of the scholarships. In the future, grants will be offered to professionals in landscape architecture and related fields for projects that support and expand the field of landscape architecture and the principles of the foundation. The foundation has a goal of $300,000 to become a self-sustainable non-profit to award scholarships and grants to organizations that exhibit ?EUR??,,????'??stewardship of the land.?EUR??,,????'?? To date the foundation has $45,000 in funds from local donors with yearly contributions from their annual summer garden tour. To contribute, please contact the Colorado chapter at www.ccasla.org.