Nancy Aten, a member of the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog, has been honored with a major national award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for ecological restoration plans and design of lands in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley. 

 

 The Honor Award from ASLA recognizes Nancy and her firm Landscapes of Place, along with the design team of Dan Collins and Marc White of White Ecological.   Using the varied topography along the river, the plan makes extensive efforts to provide an effective restoration method and trajectory for each of several Wisconsin ecological community types including a range of forest, savanna, and prairie communities, from dry-mesic to wet-mesic.  The ASLA jury was particularly impressed with the community involvement and the connection of the plan to detailed implementation phases.