News for This Week

• Landmark Court Case Turns on Floodplain Development
• Trees “Attacked” in California Town
• Grand Theft Shrubbery
• 1/03 Eddie George update
• LIGHTFAIR is Coming in April
• Nation’s Population Increases by Three Million
• Rural King County Residents Unhappy with Property Regulations
• November New Homes Sales See Significant Drop
• Sales of Existing Homes Reaches Record Level
• EPA Issues Voluntary Water and Wastewater Guidelines
• Fertilizer Ban Challenged By Lawsuit

Featured Editorial

	Five Falls The Kraft residence is in Barrington, Illinois, 35 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. The home is directly off the Fox River, a waterway that travels some 70 miles in Wisconsin before entering Illinois, where it wanders... Read "Five Falls"
	Truck Bed Conversions Equipment costs often make up a huge portion of a landscape contractor's operating costs, and it's no secret that the price of construction equipment is rising. For months the news media have been reporting on the rising cost of steel... Read "Truck Bed Conversions"

Hot Topics

	Frank Lloyd Wright A dramatic staircase of white granite on a turf-clad hill is the most recent Frank Lloyd Wright structure built-close to three-quarters of a century after the master architect created the plan. The Blue-Sky Mausoleum opened ... Read "Frank Lloyd Wright"
	LA Fundraiser Michael Ramirez, the Los Angeles Times' Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist, spoke at December's California Landscape Architecture Student Scholarship, or CLASS, fundraiser in Newport Beach, Calif. The event raised close to $5,000 for... Read "LA Fundraiser"
	ASLA Inductees The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will induct 32 landscape architects into the Council of Fellows at the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo Oct. 29-Nov. 2 in Salt Lake City... Read "ASLA Inductees"
	Landscape Lighting Homeowners are spending more on landscaping than ever before, with exterior lighting one of the fastest-growing segments of the market, recent industry data suggests... Read "Landscape Lighting"

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	Load Meters While the NEC (national electric code) states that a 120-volt circuit should not be loaded beyond 80 percent of its rated capacity, there is no such statute regarding loads on 12-volt lighting circuits. However, it's prudent to... More
	Tree Grates Tree Grates Provide Aesthetics and Increase Tree Longevity at Urban Universities... More

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