Issues resolved through the Project include youth health care and residential collaboration with the City of Atlanta on a code enforcement program to remove neighborhood eyesores. Secretary Babbitt was selected to receive the LaGasse Medal honoring a non-landscape architect. The LaGasse Medals, given in the two categories of landscape architect and non-landscape architect, recognize excellence in the management of public lands and natural resources. As Secretary of the Interior, Babbitt helped to foster the designation of some 20 new national monuments, provided a greater role from the Bureau of Land Management in the stewardship of public lands, and worked to make mining interests more responsive and responsible for land reclamation through administrative reform of the 1872 Mining Act. John O. Bell was honored with the LaGasse Medal for a landscape architect.
Leadership can provide such a voice.
Our history, natural and cultural, instructs this type of leadership. Marvin's landscape architecture firm in Waltersboro, S.C., is best known for designs embracing the unique regionalism of South Carolina. His career spans more 50 years, with numerous service and design awards. I would not let God alter a single detail of this master design unless He bid out the job to Robert Marvin. Ala. Medallists will be honored in a ceremony at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Montreal, Sept. 21-25.