landscape

Sept. 28: Park service historian speaks on park roads legacy

By Erik Gomez, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture intern PULLMAN, Wash. – A National Park Service senior historian will give a free, public talk about landscape design, engineering and the American legacy of national park roads at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Cleveland Hall 30E at Washington State University as part of the […]

Conservation buffers please the eye, protect the landscape

By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers know that adding natural buffers to the farm landscape can stop soil from vanishing. Now a scientist at Washington State University has found that more buffers are better, both for pleasing the eye and slowing erosion.

Photo gallery: Spring slowly appears in Pullman

Photos of May 16-31 on the WSU Campus by Robert Frank, WSU News     Spring Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there! ~ L.H. […]

Inventory catalogues 10,000 trees on campus

      PULLMAN – Capital Planning and Development is continuing the long process of inventorying all the trees on the WSU Pullman campus. Cynthia Arbour, campus planner, has recorded about two-thirds of the campus, about 7,000 trees. She predicts there will be more than 10,000 trees in the inventory when it’s completed.    The project helps […]

Landscape architecture students’ work envisions redesigns

LEWISTON, Idaho – Landscape architecture graduate students from WSU and the University of Idaho will present their visions for the Lewiston waterfront Dec. 10-31 at the Sage Baking Company in Lewiston.   Called “Water Views,” the show features design work produced in the course “Cultural Interpretations of the Regional Landscape.”   Image produced by University […]

Landscape students

SPOKANE — WSU Spokane will present “Powering the Palouse:  connecting people, products and ideas,” a symposium of seven presentations delivered by Landscape Architecture students 1:15-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, on the Riverpoint Campus in the Phase I Classroom Building in the Design Institute Gallery and room 148 at 668 N Riverpoint Blvd.   The presentations […]

Aiding plantscience research

Staff Excellence Award   His work on the WSU campus is really visible … so visible, in fact, that Horizon Air pilots use it as a navigation marker for coming into the Pullman airport.   Charles “Chuck” Cody’s work is to manage the plant growth facilities, or greenhouses, for the School of Biological Sciences.   […]

Library Road Phase 3 design presentation

    Capital Planning and Development will hold a Library Road Phase 3 design presentation March 3 and 4 in the Bryan Hall Foyer.   Phase 3 is a continuation of the Library Road improvement project that began in 2000.  The infrastructure improvements will be extended north from the Adminstrative Annex Building toward the bus transit hub in […]