15 fourth-graders planted and launched two floating wetland modules last week as part of Spring Camp sponsored by the City of Norman’s Parks & Recreation Department. The floating wetlands planted are the ones we built in a workshop last October.…
The Oklahoma Clean Lakes and Watersheds Association is the premier regional association promoting clean water and ecological abundance in local lakes, wetlands, and waterways. Folks from Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas regularly join their Oklahoma colleagues for learning and fellowship at…
Frames built and truck loaded with materials for a “how to build a floating wetland” workshop I’m leading tomorrow, in Norman, OK. Sponsored by City of Norman Stormwater Division. Looking forward to it! Gonna be fun!
Steve Patterson and Pennie Embry had the pleasure of meeting with folks from Choctaw Nation Environmental Services at the Eufaula Wetland Park last week. It was a beautiful, sunny day–a great day to be out enjoying the wetland. It was…
Location: Illinois River, Oklahoma/Arkansas Border Sponsors: Bio x Design, University of Arkansas, American Ecological Engineering Society The plans for the site developed in the charrette were compiled into a booklet (PDF) reporting on the charrette process and results.
Location: Eufaula, Oklahoma Client: Save our Water Lake Eufaula & Team Up to Clean Up Landscape Architect: LAUD Studio, OKC, OK Completed: 2020 Steve Patterson designed this multipurpose wetland park for a local community group, and worked with them, the…
Eighty or so students from Kirksey Middle School in Rogers, Arkansas visited the Illinois River Watershed Partnership’s Watershed Sanctuary in Cave Springs on May 15, 2015. They got a tour of the Sanctuary, chased crawdads in the former hatchery raceways,…
I had a lot of fun recently working with OU landscape architecture students in Brent Wall’s design studio class. They took on the Eufaula Wetland Park as a class project. Three teams developed three very different and very cool designs…
…and why you might want to Lake Fayetteville Environmental Study Center, Fayetteville, AR Saturday May 5, 2012, 9:30am to 1:30pm