Lucinda Bartley MLArch Portfolio by Lucinda Bartley

Lucinda Bartley MLArch Portfolio & Résumé Temple University

I am changing careers from book editing to landscape architecture, after thirteen years working for publishers in New York City. My liberal arts undergraduate degree taught me the interdisciplinary skills of writing, analysis, and collaboration. Temple University’s master’s program, with its focus on ecological restoration, allowed me to pursue my interest in sustainability, paired with rigorous problem-solving and beautiful design. A landscape project can be approached in a similar manner to a book manuscript: a designer-editor familiarizes herself with what exists and what’s come before, attempts to understand and also guide the client’s goals and desires, analyzes what’s working and what needs to change, and thinks creatively and critically to propose solutions that help the project to become its most functional and well-crafted self. Both are intellectual projects, but the physicality of landscapes is thrilling to me. Creating landscapes that tell effective stories is my new career path.

Lucinda Bartley Student ASLA MLArch, May 2018 lucinda.bartley@temple.edu linkedin.com/in/lucindabartley Online portfolio: issuu.com/lucindabartley

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MLArch Year 1 In the Spider Garden: Design Communications Studio At Dawn’s Place: Design Communications Studio Under the Rail Park: Urban Design Studio Engineering

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MLArch Year 2 Beside the Tracks: Woodland Restoration and Design Studio On the River: Wetland Restoration and Design Studio Compass Garden: Studio Circulation Study Sail Park: Studio Vegetation Study

MLArch Year 3 30 Up on the Roof: Public Lands Studio 32 On the Farm: MLArch Capstone Project Additional Work 40 Books Edited for Publication

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Résumé Education Master of Landscape Architecture 2018

Bachelor of Arts with Honors 1999

Continuing Education Spring 2012

Temple University Program concentration in ecological restoration Capstone: The Peter Wentz Farmstead: Designing for the Future on an Historic Farm • ASLA Student Honor Award The University of Texas at Austin Majors: English, Philosophy, and Plan II Honors • University Honors New York University Fundamentals of Copyediting and Proofreading Books

Community Involvement Member 2016–present

Secretary President 2008–2011

Cedar Street Park Working Group; Environmental Advisory Committee Jenkintown, Pennsylvania • Participate in planning for a new public park in coordination with Montco planners • Administered an online survey of residents and researched park planning and design • Facilitated public meeting on park priorities and presented to Borough Council Board of co-operative apartment building Queens, New York • Oversaw major renovation of historic apartment building in a landmarked district, coordinating with architect, contractor, and historic conservancy loan manager • Initiated fence and garden installation and presented to NYC’s Landmarks Preservation Commission for permitting • Led hiring process for live-in building superintendent

Skills Public Speaking and Writing

Plant ID and Ecological Restoration

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From sales presentations and public meetings to research reports and marketing materials, I am comfortable organizing and presenting my ideas in many formats. The Temple MLArch program provided a focused curriculum in northeastern native plant communities, wetland and woodland ecology, restoration and monitoring techniques, and green stormwater infrastructure. Adobe Suite Microsoft Office

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Employment Intern May 2018

Horticulture Intern Summer 2017

Design Intern Summer 2016

Freelance Editor 2011–2017

Editor 2010–2011

Associate Editor 2005–2010

Trade Editorial Assistant Marketing Coordinator 2000–2005

Sales Support Coordinator Editorial Assistant Fall 1999

SALT Design Studio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Assisted in writing and editing ASLA Award submissions • Contributed to planting plans • Participated in planning for a community meeting for park project Collins Nursery Glenside, Pennsylvania • Assisted with propagation and care of native plants Montgomery County Planning Commission Norristown, Pennsylvania • Contributed site plans, text, and editorial guidance to a publication on adaptive reuse • Created brochure on riparian corridor conservation for homeowners • Participated in open-space planning projects and urban planning studies Lucinda Bartley Editorial • Provided editing and book-doctoring services to publishers, agents, and authors • Books included a national-bestselling biography, history, journalism, and memoir Westholme Publishing Yardley, Pennsylvania • Developed, acquired, and edited books, focusing on history, science, and narrative • Created series of state military histories • Initiated company’s social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Scribd Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. (now Penguin Random House) New York, New York • Developed, acquired, and edited nonfiction books, primarily popular science, education, religion, cultural studies, and narrative • Books included New York Times bestsellers, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist W. W. Norton & Company New York, New York • Created marketing pieces, from postcards and match books to large book displays • Assisted senior editors with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; acquired a Booker Prize finalist • Member of paperback committee Penguin Group UK (now Penguin Random House UK) London, UK • In-house temp worker on college-graduate work visa

(See pages 40-41 for a sample list of books edited for publication) Lucinda Bartley

MLArch Year 1 : Design Communications Studio

In the Spider Garden

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Exercise: • Measure a garden site on the Temple-Ambler campus • Create a new garden design • Explore graphic communications techniques This was my first experience with hand-rendered graphic design. Making sections and drawings was valuable in understanding scale.

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^ Section Elevation: Looking East

^ Section Elevation: Looking West

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At Dawn’s Place Site: Dawn’s Place Client: Board and administrators of Dawn’s Place Context: Philadelphia (confidential location) Goal: Create a healing garden for a residential rehabilitation facility for women who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation.

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Challenges: The residents require privacy as well as a therapeutic outdoor space that serves multiple purposes. Parking and vehicle access needs to be preserved. Solutions: • Design a healing garden with pergola in the sunken garden behind House 1. • Plant an herb garden in the gravel outside the kitchen door behind House 1. • Create a traditional “backyard” with grill, outdoor dining tables, hammocks, lawn, and shade trees behind House 2. • Convert Garage 1 to program and exercise space and provide access. 0

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^ Section Elevation

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MLArch Year 1 : Urban Design Studio

Under the Rail Park Site: The Rail Park Context: Gentrifying center-city neighborhood, Callowhill-Chinatown North, Philadelphia Goal: Design for an inclusive and thriving neighborhood under the new Rail Park.

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Challenges: Tensions exist between longtime residents, existing industry, and newcomers attracted by rising property values, proximity to Center City, and the new Rail Park. Streets are not safe for non-car users. Schools and neighborhood children lack outdoor play space. Solutions: • Identify and encourage neighborhood sections and identities based on projected use, and design for those uses. • Create a phased plan for neighborhood growth. • Encourage production of urban agriculture with hydroponic farm industry. • Design for parks and open space and access to the Rail Park. • Install stormwater management systems: continuous street tree trenches, vegetated street drains, permeable pavement, green roofs.

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Phase 1: Five Years Parks and low- and mid-income housing

Phase 2:Ten Years Showpiece high-income green development; Infill of mixed commercial, industrial, and residential buildings

Phase 3: Fifteen Years Institutional buildings

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Case Study Drawings of Northern Liberties

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^ Plan: 200 Block of West Wildey Street

^ Section: 200 Block of West Wildey Street looking west

^ Sketch of N Bodine St and N American St

^ Elevation: 200 Block of West Wildey Street looking south Lucinda Bartley

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Engineering

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Site Engineering Plans

> Layout Plan • Stationing • Dimensioning • Curve data

> Grading Plan • Swales and basins • Driveways and paths • Athletic field and swimming pool Lucinda Bartley

MLArch Year 2: Woodland Restoration & Design Studio

Beside the Tracks Site: Somerset and Trenton-Catalyst Site #1, Client: Dr. Mahbubur Meenar, Assistant Professor of Planning, Rowan University Context: Along Conrail’s Lehigh Viaduct corridor, post-industrial North of LehighKensington neighborhood, Philadelphia

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Goal: Propose design and remediation programs for catalyst sites as part of an EPA Brownfields Area-Wide Plan (BAWP) grant in conjunction with Temple University’s Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) and the New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). By remediating and redesigning the catalyst sites, the neighborhood will reclaim valuable land for public use and development, restore ecological functions lost during industrialization, and create beautiful and inspiring outdoor spaces for residents and visitors. Challenges: A history of heavy industry and rail use has created brownfields which require remediation before they can be safely returned to public use. The Kensington neighborhood has suffered economically from deindustrialization. Solutions: On Catalyst Site #1, create an urban landscape that serves the neighborhood: • Build a community center and affordable housing • Manage stormwater in a wooded rain garden • Create a public park and reclaim an underused street • Extend project site to create a playground on an adjacent vacant lot

North of Lehigh - Kensington Brownﬁelds Area-Wide Plan Landscape Restoration and Design Concepts TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MLArch Woodland Design Studio, Fall 2016 Kristie Lane Anderson | Lucinda Bartley I Andrew Freifeld I Jenna Otto | Karolina W-Schwartz

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Master Plan for Somerset and Trenton-Catalyst Site #1 The site was previously occupied by rail warehouses, a metal company, and a wool mill. Abandoned industrial buildings will be demolished and invasive vegetation removed to clear the site for new uses which serve the community. Following an Environmental Site Assessment, heavily contaminated soil may need to be moved off-site for 18

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treatment, though some contaminated soil could be capped underneath the proposed buildings. Plants and trees can assist in cleaning soil and water through phytoremediation, and soil organisms can break down some contaminants through rhizosphere degradation. Stormwater infiltration should be encouraged only after remediation is complete, to avoid leaching

contaminants into ground water. The entire canopy of invasive Paulownia and white mulberry trees will be removed. Logs from felled trees should be reused on site as timber or as park and playground equipment: teepee, log climbing structures, stump stairs, stump seats, etc. Red brick from demolished buildings will be repurposed for paving or facing.

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A large community center becomes the heart of the neighborhood, with a roof garden, atrium, solar panels, and green roofs. Job training classes focusing on the green economy participate in studying and maintaining the building, the grounds, and the Lehigh Viaduct Park.

An adventure and discovery playground features two small hills connected by a stone bridge and varied plant communities. Existing basketball courts and seating area are improved. Rush Street is closed to traffic along the length of the playground. Parking for the residential buildings is accessed from the south end of Rush Street, which is two-way.

A public park features a broad lawn, demonstration gardens, and an ADAaccessible tree house. Stormwater from the site and from Rush Street is directed into a wooded rain garden.

Mixed-use, affordable-housing buildings include senior housing and medical office space, five new row houses and an apartment building. Sustainable elements include green roofs, solar panels, and a green screen wall on wire trellis. Residents share a private fenced courtyard, featuring a lawn, a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play area with sandbox, and an outdoor barbeque kitchen.

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Details: Playground Plan E Auburn Street Stormwater tree trench and street trees

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Sandbox Seating Weeping willow and fairy garden

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Details: Community Center and Park Plan B

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MLArch Year 2: Wetland Restoration & Design Studio

On the River Site: Pleasant Hill Park Client: Friends of Pleasant Hill Park and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Context: East Torresdale neighborhood, Philadelphia Goal: Reconnect people and the site to the river and design for resiliency; preserve and improve popular recreational uses; restore ecological and hydrologic function; and create new purpose for underutilized areas. Key Map

Challenges: Despite heavy armoring of the shoreline, the river and its tides regularly cause flooding and erosion. A wetland mitigation project failed to function as intended. Heavy recreational use exceeds the facility’s ability to accommodate visitors. Solutions: • Naturalize the major hydrologic features of the site while preserving their recreational use by increasing the flow of water through stagnant water bodies and reconnecting the pond and marsh to the tidal range of the river. • Redesign the vehicular traffic and the boat launch to simplify flow and minimize impermeable cover. • Improve recreational and educational opportunities with playgrounds, a community center, a picnic pavilion, and a boathouse/environmental center. • Create a new vision for a modern promenade along the riverfront.

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^ Rendering of Playground and Splash Pad with Stream Feature

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Wissinoming Street Samuel S. Baxter Water Treatment Plant Cambridge Street Arendell Avenue

Community Center and Playground

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Proposed Site Hydrology A creek once flowed through the site and emptied into a mud flat at the river edge. Early 20th-century fish hatchery ponds later became popular sites for neighborhood fishing. Increasing flow through the fishing ponds, daylighting the channelized

stream, and reconnecting a stagnant pond to the tidal flow of the river creates healthy and varied habitats and preserves recreational use. Swales capture stormwater from paved surfaces and rain gardens filter it before directing it to the tidal pond.

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The Promenade The northern stretch of the park was traditionally a riverfront beach. A bulkhead wall constructed in the 1920s separated visitors from the water. In this design, a broad promenade overlooks the river, and a stairway invites visitors to reconnect with the shoreline.

Paths guide visitors through shrub and perennial plantings, offering designed views, and allowing access to lawns for picnicing and lounging. An oval berm creates a bowl, which fronts on a cantilevered section of the promenade.

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MLArch Year 2: Studio Circulation Study

Compass Garden

Study Exercise: • Taking inspiration from a poem, create a design emphasizing circulation and landscape experiences • Explain the rationale This formal residential garden is inspired by Donne’s characterization of the lovers’ relationship, as two people who remain connected even when separated, and who always return to each other. More specifically, while the speaker in the poem “far doth roam,” his lover remains at home, a “fixed foot” of a compass, pulling him back to “end where I begun.” The idea of roaming but returning home inspired the idea of a domestic garden with pathways that lead away from home, and circles that are “just” and end where they begin— at the door of the house. I created three pathways. The first is a perfect circle, paved in gray cobblestones, and accessed from the house door. This circle is ringed by evergreens, densely planted near the

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house, but spaced progressively farther apart (“an expansion, / like gold to airy thinness beat”) as the path travels away from the house. This simple, “just” circular path can be meditative, providing changing experiences and views but with a consistent foot feel, the rhythm of the passing evergreens crescendoing and decrescendoing. A second path of pale crushed stone begins at the front door. In a sweeping arc, it breaks through the first pathway and the evergreen circle and continues out into the world: this is the path for the lover who must “roam.” If the path were continued through its full circle, it would eventually lead back to the door. In this model, the path takes the walker into the outer gardens, where a few trees indicate a woodland beyond. The third path is a spiral of gray crushed stone which pulls away from the circular path, loops through an oblong walled garden, over a wooden bridge over a pond, and finally to a vertical sculpture.

This sculpture sits at the point in the garden where the “fixed foot” of the compass would rest to define the second, outbound path and serves as the visual focal point of the garden. The central planting bed is ringed by a 30”-high gray granite wall, and the pool is edged with the same granite but flush at ground level. These two ovals echo the “trepidation of the spheres”— the movement of celestial bodies. As walkers pass over the bridge, they may be startled by jets of water arcing over their heads—“water jokes” or jeux d’eau were a feature of European gardens in Donne’s time. Donne’s poetry includes unexpected and often amusing images or comparisons. The residents and their guests should not feel constrained by the paths. A mowed lawn creates continuity from the encircled garden into the gardens beyond, and stepping off a path and into the lawn is a welcome option for circulation.

“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ‘Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did, and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers’ love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love so much refined, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th’ other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.

Compass Garden Model Plan View

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MLArch Year 2: Studio Vegetation Study

Sail Park

Study Exercise: • Taking inspiration from a painting, create a design emphasizing vegetation and form

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Paul Klee’s abstracted and colorful “Sailng Boats, 1927” is the inspiration for an urban park, drawing from both the vocabulary of shapes, the strong triangles and encompassing curves, and the images of water, wind, height, and sky that accompany the idea of a sea voyage.

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^ Iteration 3: Urban Pocket Park Three large triangles representing the major groupings of sails in the original painting are evident on the ground plane through the use of gray pavers. Each sail-triangle encompasses a different tree species, of varying heights and characteristics. Two linked

triangles defined by seat walls create a reflecting pool and an â&#x20AC;&#x153;islandâ&#x20AC;? of evergreens, flowering trees, and shrubs. A small cantilevered wooden triangle creates seating but also allows visitors to stand in the midst of the water. Four small triangular seat walls are planted

with undulating grasses that will catch the sun, in reference to the motion of the water and clouds. A curving shape captures the motion of the waves, culminating in a circular pool.

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MLArch Year 3: Public Lands Studio

Up on the Roof Site: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple University Health System Client: Fox Chase Cancer Center Healing Garden Committee Context: North Philadelphia campus, neighboring Jeanes Hospital and Burholme Park Goal: Provide the Healing Garden Committee with design proposals to initiate a new design project and capital campaign. Through evidence-based design, develop visions for a healing landscape and a comprehensive campus plan to provide accessible, stressreducing, ecologically-connective natural spaces for staff, patients, and visitors. Key Map

Challenges: The campus is green, but underdesigned and underused, and the majority of the site is covered in impermeable surfaces. Connections need to be made to nearby natural areas across the surrounding urban context. Solutions: As part of a team, I helped create a campus plan that ensured full access to the landscape for mobility-challenged users, protected sensitive hospital interiors from view, and provided a variety of natural spaces that change seasonally. Individually, I focused on creating green wall and green roof proposals, as well as investigating stormwater management and funding opportunities through grants and credits.

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Priority 1: Designed roof gardens for use and viewing Priority 2: Green roofs for water and energy efficiency

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Reimann Building

Prioritizing Opportunities > Roof surfaces were analyzed for suitability, considering minimal rooftop infrastructure, views from above from upper-floor windows, and age of the roof structure, to determine possible uses.

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^ Plan of the Cafeteria Green Roof ^ Rendering of the Cafeteria Green Roof A helix design in sedum, visible from windows and a walkway, refers to the interwoven lives of patients and caregivers, as well as cutting-edge genetic research. Lucinda Bartley

MLArch Year 3: Capstone Project

On the Farm (The complete capstone report can be found in the document The Peter Wentz Farmstead: Designing for the Future on an Historic Farm) Site: The Peter Wentz Farmstead Client: Montgomery County and Farmstead administrators Context: Eighteenth-century Pennsylvania-German farm in Worcester Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; temporary HQ for George Washington in 1777. Goal: The County acquired adjacent land and wants to integrate the properties. • Improve public access to the site and its amenities and protect its historic integrity • Preserve the agricultural character of the site and implement sustainable practices • Restore ecological functions and connections and educate visitors about the site’s natural history

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Solutions: • Move parking and create entry circulation to direct visitors to new visitor center • Construct a bridge and paths to reconnect the two historic farmstead areas • Propose a new system of nature trails to take users to varied ecosystems • Restore riparian corridor, improve meadow under PECO lines, and create wetland

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Detail Area: Visitor Center Programming

1 Visitor Center • Informational displays • Staff offices • Greenhouse • Terraced demonstration beds • Classroom/meeting space (garage building) 2 Permeable parking lots 3 Regional multi-use trail connection 4 Bus and car drop-off 5 Formal garden and lawn 6 Arbor and patio

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^ Plan of New Visitor Center and Parking The formal garden in the entry to the visitor center is inspired by historic Pennsylvania German kitchen gardens. Axes pass through the front door of the Visitor Center and connect the parking lot and path to historic areas. “The early formal farm garden was square or slightly rectangular . . . divided into nearly four equal areas [by paths] with a circle in the center.” —Amos Long, Jr., The Pennsylvania German Family Farm ^ Rendering of arbor (6), path, and no-mow sedge lawn 36

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Entry Overview A birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye view toward the southeast. As visitors walk the path from the Visitor Center (1) toward the Peter Wentz Farmstead (2), they pass through a gate in a zig-zag stake-and-rider fence, indicating that they are now leaving the entry experience and entering an historic area. The path joins the Old Schultz Road, now a pedestrian trail, which is bordered on the south by a zig-zag fence and a row of apple trees providing blooms in the spring, shade in the summer, and fruit in the fall. A new trail from the plaza in front of the farmhouse leads south to the Kre-Belle Farm. Visible in the distance behind the farmhouse is an outdoor-classroom addition to the visitor services building. Lucinda Bartley

Detail Area: Kre-Belle Farm Created Wetland

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Low-impact helical piles support the observatory structure and ramp in the sensitive wetland soils. Walls are constructed of local field stone. The observatory is open to the air facing north, surrounded on two sides by an elevated boardwalk, and topped by a green roof of hardy grasses and sedums and a viewing platform. Education programs can be conducted in the observatory, and signage will inform visitors about the native plant communities, wildlife, and ecological functions they are observing.

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^ Concept Grading Plan of Created Wetland In the proposed created wetland, the impact on the creek hydrology from a legacy of 250 years of farming and of sediments from mill ponds is addressed. The existing farm pond and the land to the north and east of the Kre-Belle farmhouse is regraded to create a series of shallow step pools. Stone weirs control water level in the pools, and visitors can walk across them. The Rowland Terrace soil in the floodway is in hydrologic Group C, which can be highly compacted to form an impermeable base layer for created wetlands and does not require a liner. A constant flow of water from the drain tiles in the crop fields to the south fills the first pool, then spills over the weir into the next pool. If Zacharias Creek rises, the lowest pool will be filled with backflow from the creek. Plantings of wetland species will provide ecosystem services, including filtration of nutrients and sediment runoff.

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That Glorious Forest Sir Ghillean T. Prance

The End of the Long Summer Dianne Dumanoski

Johnny Cash: The Life Robert Hilburn

Former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Environmental journalist

LA Times music journalist

“Full of the wisdom and insight of a 50-year love affair with the Amazon.” —Geographical Magazine

“Remarkable . . . lucid . . . unsensational. . . . The popular environmental book of the year? Could be, and of many more to come.” —Booklist, starred

National Bestseller “A thorough and thoughtful portrait. . . . As authoritative as it’s engaging.”—New York Times

The Man Who Invented Christmas Les Standiford

Independence: A Guide to Historic Philadelphia George W. Boudreau

Confessions of a Sociopath M. E. Thomas

Historian and creative writing professor

Historian

Pseudonymous blogger, sociopathworld.com

Made into a Major Motion Picture “Sweet and sincere.” —New York Times

“Opens the door to the city. . . . Copiously illustrated and fascinating.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

“Gripping and important . . . revelatory.” —New York Times Book Review “Fascinating.”—Boston Globe

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Letters to a Young Teacher Jonathan Kozol

Beast Doug Merlino

The Divine Life of Animals Ptolemy Tompkins

Bestselling author on education

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Religion and spirituality author

“Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn’t pull punches.”—Washington Post

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“Incredibly entertaining while it also raises deep ethical questions about our human understanding of the animal soul.” —Publishers Weekly, starred

Say Everything Scott Rosenberg

The Bird Colin Tudge

The Tizard Mission Stephen Phelps

Tech journalist, co-founder of Salon

Science writer

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“Gracefully written and well researched, . . . captures the drama of blogging’s rapid-fire rise.”—BusinessWeek, four stars

Chosen as a best book of the year: “Marries the poetry and the science of the dinosaur’s bestloved descendants.” —Independent

“More than a history of technology; . . . skillfully interweaves . . . warfare, politics, science, and the personalities involved.” —Wall Street Journal

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