Concurrent Education Session

SUN-B01: Rewilding a Post-industrial Landscape: A Story About Diversity

Sunday, October 6, 2024

10:15am – 11:30am ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 147AB

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Heather Blaikie, ASLA, PLA

Senior Park Planner
Scenic Hudson, Inc.
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York

Session Guide

Speaker(s)

Marni Burns, ASLA, PLA (she/her/hers)

Partner
OLIN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eric Rothstein (he/him/his)

Managing Partner
eDesign Dynamics
New York, New York

Explore how regenerative processes of unique ecosystems, in a 520-acre quarried landscape with a mile of Hudson River shoreline, can be amplified as a model for bolstering biodiversity in the transformation of a large-scale post-industrial site to deliver inclusive community gathering spaces within a framework of interpretation and recovery.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand how a well-executed Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) process can inform land use planning of a post-industrial landscape, from habitat surveys to partner-driven management strategies.
Learn from various engagement strategies to facilitate community agency in the planning process for hard-to-reach and poorly served local, low-income neighborhoods and non-English-speaking communities.
Learn about erosion management and vegetative restoration techniques in no-soil and minimal-soil quarry landscapes to promote ecosystem restoration and protect water quality.
Learn about technical science and data-driven analytical processes in habitat quality assessments, leading to pragmatic design and land management recommendations.