Kelly Gutshall, LandStudies President, is the recipient of Penn State University’s 2018 Arts and Architecture Alumni Award for Landscape Architecture. The award is given to one alumni recipient within each of Penn State’s departments to recognize career achievements in the arts and design disciplines. Kelly received her award during the Alumni Awards Ceremony in early […]
Back in April we first introduced you to the Brubaker Run – Lime Spring Square development project in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. LandStudies was brought in by Oak Tree Development Group to design this 11.5-acre floodplain restoration project on the 98-acre project development site. Construction started in September and represents just one piece of […]
Oak Tree Development Group, a Lancaster-based real estate development company, is partnering with East Hempfield Township on an expansive water quality initiative located within the proposed 98-acre Lime Spring Square commercial development project. This major floodplain restoration project will help the Township meet its EPA directed Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction goals at no cost to […]
Rife Run, a tributary of Chiques Creek, runs through Lancaster County. Flooding along this stream, which flows through the hearts of Logan and Mummau parks in Manheim Borough, made it difficult to keep the parks maintained and open for use. It also caused a significant amount of soil and nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus to […]
LandStudies has 30 staff who work on a variety of projects across south-central Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and beyond. In this and future web posts, we will highlight those staff who make our ecological restoration and design work possible. This month, we feature our Director of the Field Operations Division, James Kreider. Responsibilities Mr. Kreider […]
Manheim, PA – B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc., an excavating, paving and site management company based in Manheim, Pa., and LandStudies, Inc., a landscape architecture firm based in Lititz, Pa., recently received two awards from the Associated Builders & Contractors Keystone Chapter organization for the Logan Park – Rife Run Floodplain Restoration Project in Manheim. […]
LandStudies was part of a collaborative effort to transform Big Spring Run into a new, thriving wetland ecosystem. Environmental engineers, geologists, botanists, landowners and F&M students provided 8 years of scientific research and monitoring that allowed LandStudies to design this project. The project will improve water quality in the watershed, create improved wildlife habitat, and […]
The Story of Streams Our publication, Floodplain Restoration, tells the story of stream systems – stream channels and their adjacent floodplains—in the Eastern United States, particularly in the region known as the Piedmont Province. You will learn how stream systems are supposed to work, what happened to our stream systems when we began to settle the East Coast, and why it […]
What LandStudies’ Clients Say… “I wanted to express my/SRBC’s sincere “Thanks!” to you (LandStudies) for supporting us so diligently and competently on this project (Chiques Creek Watershed Concept Plan). Your contributions have been tremendously helpful to us, and more importantly, extremely valuable to the stakeholders of the watershed. Your work speaks to your ingenuity and dedication […]