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Governor's Conference on Greenways, Blueways and Trails

October 4-7
Richmond, VA

Mark Your Calendar for This Year's Triple Play!

The Governor's Conference on Greenways, Blueways and Trails and the 54th Annual Conference of the Virginia Recreation and Park Society and the 10th Annual Virginia Bike Walk Conference will join forces in Richmond on October 4-7, 2008 to promote active living.

This will be the largest conference ever held in Virginia focusing on outdoor recreation, trails, and non-motorized transportation. Please mark your calendar for October 4-7, 2008 now!

http://www.vrps.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=226

Pennsylvania Landscape Architects Defend their Right under PA Law to Undertake Stormwater Work

Pennsylvania officials have ruled that the state's landscape architects are legally qualified to complete structural stormwater design. The January decision reverses a previous ruling that placed stormwater design work outside of landscape architects' job description. Now the state's LAs can "prepare and seal" stormwater plans.

The Pennsylvania/Delaware ASLA Chapter reports that a Jan. 17 letter from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) reverses the department's earlier position that landscape architects were not qualified to design stormwater BMPs. The DEP letter states that landscape architects "are qualified to design certain structural stormwater BMPs."