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Know Your Land

 

To make a place special, it’s important to understand where the place has come from. To know your land means to uncover its best places and to learn the stories of its rocks, oaks, fences, and old paths. Every place is special, but the stories of some places are never revealed. So they remain uncelebrated. 

My goal is to help landowners, land managers, and planners understand their land as a dynamic set of natural and human relationships. Reading the landscape reveals a hidden history from rocks, ecological communities, and past land use. From that emerges thoughtful interpretation, management options, and a dynamic user experience.