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Wildfire Resilience and the Role of Landscapes
An expanded fire season has underscored the need for ongoing vigilance in planning, preparation, and maintenance. From landscaping selection to vegetation management plans, managers should take positive actions to reduce the overall wildfire risk for their facilities. In 2021, more than 46,000 wildfires scorched more than 5 million acres of land. Many of these fires have happened outside of the traditional fire season, which is September and October. The expanded fire season has underscored the need for ongoing vigilance when it comes to wildfire resilience planning, preparation, and maintenance by institutional and commercial facilities. Understanding the vulnerability of a facility extends beyond just the building and its contents. It includes…
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Check Out This Artbook On Game Landscapes By A Garden Designer
The forthcoming artbook by award-winning garden designer Rob Dwiar, Genius Loci: A Grand Tour of Video Game Landscapes and Gardens, will be fully funded with only a few more backers. Genius Loci was accepted for publication in April, 2021. The artbook is just about ready for print. The term “genius loci” translates from Latin to “the spirit of a place.” This was a reference to the various gods and goddesses that were believed to inhabit particular groves and springs. The term is mostly used these days by architects and designers to describe the overall character of a location. This would be what Dwiar seeks to capture when it comes to…
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‘Artificial Perceptions’ art exhibit showcases beautiful landscapes
From Nov. 1-23, there will be a solo art exhibition in the Wadsworth Relatives Gallery, featuring Art Office Chair Mark Swain’s work titled “Artificial Perceptions.” This showcases the representation of nature and portrays the play of light on a range of distinct surfaces. “This is the very first opportunity that I genuinely had to paint in a though due to the fact I have been truly hectic with a large amount of other things I do here at Lewis,” mentioned Swain. “I did do some paintings, a number of several years again oil on concrete, like these are, and I seriously savored it.” In the gallery, there are a complete…
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The last book in an unplanned trilogy explores the enduring affection for people and landscapes
Guide of the 7 days With deep sensation, F. Harlan Flint writes about numerous sides of really like in his new guide “From There to Eternity: Alzheimer’s and Over and above.” There’s Flint’s enduring love for his spouse Chris in excess of 60 a long time of relationship. She battled Alzheimer’s, succumbing to the illness in 2016. Sections of the book shift in time to tell about the maturing of a younger lady into a vibrant, useful grownup. She and Flint satisfied as learners at the College of New Mexico. There’s his really like for his superior pal Baudelio Garcia. The two had been neighbors in the far northern New…
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How Oregon gardeners can adapt their landscapes to changing climate
This yr, Oregon gardeners have observed a shift from the state’s traditional Mediterranean climate. Severe weather ailments, ranging from an ice and windstorm to a record-breaking heatwave, have wreaked havoc on landscapes and gardens. As the local weather proceeds to change, there are techniques gardeners can apply to better adapt, secure and put together their crops for other serious, incoming situations. “There’s excellent proof that local weather modify is happening and impacting factors here in Oregon on a broad scale, and it involves, particularly, bigger and bigger probability of excessive climate events. And we’ve viewed some illustrations of that just lately,” explained Weston Miller, local community and urban horticulturist for…



