Cultivating Biodiverse Landscapes: Tools, Tips, and Mindset Shifts for Working with Living Ecosystems

Achieving resilient, biodiverse designed landscapes depends on effective, adaptable management and a realistic set of goals. Management is often not considered during the design process or included in design documentation, which can lead to a design vision being hard to fulfill and failure to achieve ecological goals. 

Join this webinar to learn more about how to plan for and manage habitat and species diversity in designed landscapes over time. The webinar features case studies for residential and public projects by two design firms with expertise in habitat management. 

Learning objectives:

• Understand how planning for landscape management during the design phase helps ensure resilient, biodiverse landscapes. 
• View case studies showing habitat management techniques on varied projects, including residential sites as well as on larger-scale habitat restoration projects.
• Understand how project design documentation can support effective landscape management. 
• Understand how to see and assess your property to make the right ecological design and management choices for a piece of property. 
• The Closed Loop: there is no such thing as waste in nature. Learn how to leave it where it is to sustain and enrich the biodiversity on site.  
• Think about forests as the new landscaping and how to fit them and manage them within public and private landscapes.  

Image: Pocket Forest, Tisdale School, Bridgeport, CT / Bram Gunther, PLAN it WILD