Greg Hauser, ASLA Sierra Chapter President, presented the Centennial Medallion to Stanley Albright, Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, today in the park. The ASLA medallion award program is intended to build a better understanding of the landscape architecture profession by helping the public understand that these significant national and regional sites are planned and designed, and not simply preserved stretches of nature. Yosemite joins 362 historic landscape sites around the nation, including the U.S. Capitol grounds and New York's Central Park, in receiving this centennial honor. The American Society of Landscape Architects, founded one hundred years ago in 1899, represents more than 13,000 members nationwide. Landscape architecture is a comprehensive discipline of land analysis, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation.
Landscape architects hold graduate or undergraduate degrees.
Licensed to practice in 46 states, landscape architects are also required to pass a rigorous national examination. The Centennial Medallion was designed and manufactured by Canterbury International, as a gift to the ASLA's centennial celebration.