GardenDesignOnline: New Landscape Architecture School (via GardenDesignOnline) The Academy of Art University in San Francisco has recently launched a new program in landscape architecture, offering two separate degrees — a Bachelors Degree (a four-year program); or an Associates Degree (a two-year program). According to the university, landscape architecture is expected to be one of the [...]

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Natural Phenomenon: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com – Annotated Via Archinect.com. This fall, after eight years and almost half a billion dollars, world-famous architect Renzo Piano will complete the greenest museum ever built—the new California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—housing its aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof.” by [...]

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PlantRight: Spread the Word – Annotated You can help protect California wildlands! Always choose non-invasive alternatives for your own garden. Download and share the list of invasive plants and their suggested alternatives for your region.  

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Individual Papers from Southwestern rare and endangered plants: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference Annotated A tale of two rare wild buckwheats (Eriogonum subgenus Eucycla (Polygonaceae)) from Southeastern Arizona Anderson, John L. Penstemon lanceolatus Benth. or P. ramosus Crosswhite in Arizona and New Mexico, a peripheral or endemic species? Anderson, J. L.; Richmond-Williams, S.; Williams, O. [...]

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Since ’01, Guarding Species Is Harder – washingtonpost.com Annotated the advocacy group WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking a court order to protect 681 Western species all at once, on the grounds that further delay would violate the law. Among the species cited are tiny snails, vibrant butterflies, and a wide assortment of plants [...]

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