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Interpretive Trail to help Visitors understand the Treasures of Local Wild Lands
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Signs help explain ecosystem, history
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Ellet Interpretive Trail Open to the Public
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Sustainable Design and Practices
Interface Journal of PCI
January 2007
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New Features at Minnehaha Creek Headwaters
Excerpt from Minnehaha Creek Watershed District "Water Pro" Volume 2, Issue 2 - Summer 2006.
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Green Design Goes Through the Roof
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Wood Creek erosion control project, City of Plymouth
Best Management Practices in urban watershed erosion control using bioengineering, City of Plymouth, Hennepin County, MN
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Benefits of Green Roofs
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Clean and Green
A new State Fair exhibit is drawing throngs who want to do their part to help the environment -- and save some money.
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Minneapolis Green
LandscapeOnline features a brief article on the Minneapolis City Hall green roof project.
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Green Roofs-from Babylon to Blue Earth County
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Green isn't just a color when it comes to roofs
Green roofs are coming to the Twin Cities, and landscape architect Peter MacDonagh of the Kestrel Design Group is a leader in the effort.
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City Hall to plant rooftop garden amid downtown's concrete canyon
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High Atop the Library a City Rooftop Blooms
The City of Minneapolis' Central Library green roof project is featured in this article published in the July 16, 2005 issue of the Star Tribune.
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A Creek without a Name Becomes a Community Asset
An article on the Pike Creek Channel stabilization project published in January-February 2005 issue of "Land and Water".
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Green Roofs: Growing Advantage
The Philip's Eco-Enterprise Center and Green Institute Demonstration green roof is featured in this article published in the July 16, 2005 issue of the Star Tribune.
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Women Owned Landscape Businesses
Article published in the June 2005 issue of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association journal.
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Best Management Practices for Construction Sites
This article, published in "Landscape Contractor National", outlines Best Management Practices for shoreline and wetland restoration construction sites.
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Erosion Control: Better, Stronger, Faster, Cheaper
Erosion control techniques used on the Minnehaha Creek Headwaters project located in Gray's Bay Lake Minnetonka were discussed in the Summer 2005 issue of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District's Newsletter .
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Deeper Shade of Green: Three Firms Strive to Fuse Design with Ecology.
Article published in the March 2004 issue of "Landscape Architecture Magazine". KDG projects are featured as examples of ecological design.
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Farming a New Frontier: Peck Farm Park Tells a Story That Most Suburbs Choose to Forget.
Article published in the November 2003 issue of "Landscape Architecture Magazine" on the Peck Farm Park project.
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Bearing Trees: Preparing the Soil for Future Design.
Article published "MN In Common- The Newsletter of the MN Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects" featuring the Land Cover of Northern Scott County project, the recipient of a MASLA Honor 2003 Award for Planning.
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Rooftop Oases
This article was published in the March-April 2003 issue of "Architecture Minnesota". The Philip's Eco-Enterprise and Green Institute Demonstration Green Roof project is featured among others.
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