a landscape architect who worked on the bush center and who's designing the landscape for the obama presidential center in chicago. this is just under .hello and -- one hour. >> hello and good evening. welcome to our inaugural forum on leadership. and our very first studio 43. as kim mentioned earlier, the studio 43 conversations are part of our ongoing transformation and foundation series. a discussion of forces that will transform our lives over the next 50 years. and reenforcing those concepts that bind us together as citizens. so to that end, this conversation will check both boxes. nature, which is foundational, and conservation, which is trans formational. in a few moment, we'll hear from a group of experts as they discuss this important topic. our panel today includes james former, the prolific author of several best-selling garden and interior design books. if you watch television, listen to the radio r or read popular make seines like southern living, traditional home or southern home, you have likely already been exposed to james' southern grace and charm. also on our panel today is wo

of the landscape -- seeding and restoration of the landscape. so that everybody could kind of know what we were getting into. i think they also want to know that we really knew what we were doing. [ laughter ] i do that a lot with restoration projects, where you make a path and look at it. so, the lady bird people were an incredible part of this for us, and when we made the test, we did not just do one, we did 3-4 different things. i think the coolest thing they did was that they had done the research on the turf, that mrs. bush described a few minutes ago, of the five native species. it may have -- they have been working with that, and the presidential center was the first time it was used extensively in a public site. so, that was another thing they brought to the project. >> i mean, i had no idea how technical this is. the way you described the soil and how the watering is done. it is interesting. it seemed to me you need to learn a lot about the particular location where you work. it is not something -- >> absolutely. >> -- you cannot do the

landscaping, so we'd have both a 48-inch box sized tree, and then a larger opening for sidewalk landscaping. those are the key reasons that we felt that we would concede on this one. again, wrong tree, wrong place. and i have a couple of photos. we'll go to the overhead just to show the site and the tree, if we could go to overhead. again, the tree is a brisbane box, and this red arrow shows the subject tree. there's a little bit of shine there. and it's in a row of other trees of similar size, so there is some canopy presence. the property to the left is not the subject property, it's the property to the left or to the east. there's both a street tree and a large eucalyptus tree on the set back. in terms of visual impact, it's not as bad as we've seen when we're before you with similar cases. again, this is a side-view of the tree with the overhead lines, and there's both low voltage and high voltage lines. this is a view straight on from across the street. the replacement tree would be opposite the doorway. there's a water line to the left of the stairway and a gas line, but there is enou

hay deguy, it's all coming together and i go from landscape to landscape putting these layers together because i think we look into the path and we go that's the path. it's so long ago we can't even imagine it anymore but i don't thinkit's that long ago. i think we are in the continual . i was down in white sands for one of the chapters in this book and mammoth tracks have been appearing for quite some time out on the missile range because it was a dry lake bed . the mammoths walking across the lake bed left whole track ways for you can see them walking. and these are fossil tracks. they're not rocks. they're just impressions in the mind that were then buried and now the wind is scraping off the surface and revealing these mushroom shapes sticking up and they don't last that long. they might only last year's four they are swept off because they are just. and i was traveling down there with some friends and then we were, i was writing about clovis and fulcrum technology and i was down there with a friend of mine was a bomb the user in iraq. he's talking about weapons and we're walking o

this is a typical landscape there. farming land, landscapes. mitchell: and muddy roads. guillaume: and muddy roads, yet. [laughter] guillaume: this is early 1918 probably because that is when american troops would start to see action, especially march and april of 1918. mitchell: it is hard to tell because of the heavy coats, so it might be early spring. guillaume: yeah. mitchell: even though this is a modern more, you can see there are horse-drawn litters carrying the artillery as it is hard to get that out of the mud and ditches. the motor transport would not be able to handle. guillaume: we are probably even closer. soldiers marching. oh, the bridge, that is interesting. crossing a river. this could be the muse river. mitchell: before the attack, where their americans in that region? guillaume: yet. especially second divisions in line 10 miles south. they had sectors there. it was quite there, but when the germans realized that they were facing americans, they tried several offenses. mitchell: right, there was the raid there and the bombing of the 26th division. there

and theme park magic series featured pick landscape today business and. we know the name we know the same chain and we know what he likes to drink but james bond is still full of mystery today though many of those mysteries can be on ravelled with a trip to the austrian alps in the location where many of the scenes from the film spectra were shot is now a james bond museum that opened its doors to the public today up this in any ordinary museum w seven elements as it's called off has more of a virtual reality experience by awakening visitors many senses to begin with just guessing that requires you to be ok with heights. if you can only reach the peak. that's when inspector james bond finally finds that crucial. seven elements is next to the ice cube restaurant which was the. hollywood set designer came up with the idea for the exhibition and. to rector on several times to get he just right we wanted to be a multi-sensory most of experience where you actually feel the. physical. traditional museum where you go in you look at objects we really wanted to cr

you see the landscape. part of the offense of his starting from the big plain and had to reach plateaus that you can see in the distance. this was for five heavy days. mitchell: i think that was a naval railway gun. guillaume: exactly, that is. that is probably samyiel already. mitchell: the monument was built and commemorates a campaign. you see the netting on top to protect the camouflage. in the event the german planes fly over. guillaume: that is the artillery preparation. that was a four hour long artillery preparation. it included almost 3000 guns. we saw the barb wire quickly. mitchell: you would have troops, engineers that would lead the infantry in battle with their wire-cutting in case the artillery wouldn't take it. you can see the infamous over-the-top jumping after a whistle blew from the commanding officer. they would had forward north against horrendous german artillery and machine guns. mitchell: george s patton, a young kernel at the time, saw his first action in st. mihiel. guillaume: and

coyotes are doing pretty well in this urban landscape thanks to their adaptability, but the mountain lions are another story. they really need some help if they're going to have a population here for multiple ggenerations to come. i use camera traps, which are motion-activated cameras that have a sensor in front that's triggered by motion or heat that allows me to document wildlife that is using a particular area. and each photo or each image is titime- and dadate-stamped to tl e activityty levels of cecertain spspecies. ohoh, there he is. walking right past on the same trail. yeah, he's s looking healthy. he's walking really well, which is great to see. p-22 kind of adadapted to griffith park, and when i say "kind of adapted," i mean that he has retained the same behavior of his rural couunterparts in patagonia and in the western santa monicas. but at its core, his story is about survival. and a lot of people cann relate to a story w where it's about an individual basically facing some very, seemingly insurmountable odds and defeating thth. his ability to get into this park, cross t

the landscape architect and so many i rescued most of the trees here. they had been discarded by their owners and were heading for the scrap heap on the sawmill you see any store i need. what you see here is the kind of installation i've collected these trees over the past twenty five years. the ceased and the. i pay tribute to trees which might instead have been killed or felled an old or the fall of the onto our own was all ago him everything you see here was once a reject him which others were going to throw away. this is sally i call this a museum because i place the trees in a particular configuration will see. the seven and a half hectare open air museum is located nearly searing. she wished i had the side in i want to show how landscape architecture can mirror our society or our development and should be cool. to see you can see how the younger generation wants to be outdoors again mission faced us probably in response to digitalisation it in our house and their home soon. being that we are always working on our farms and computers. and computer

green acres visit some of this stunning park landscapes in germany. well hopefully you aren't the kind to get seasick because we are taking you for a rough ride in today's show swiss extreme sportsman iran born you'll sailed around the world on a boat with out cabins he just had a few maps a sleeping bag and freeze dried food onboard now and sounds pretty adventurous so much so he made a video of his sailing trip and the film the ocean rider is now part of the international ocean film tour. yvonne bowen yourself his sportscaster miranda round the show a journey of fifty five thousand kilometers with no cabin g.p.s. . we mishap with him in paris to find out what inspired his voyage. i did. my patience in some thirteen years old and also when i was your i did this trip with my parents but we have a for sure big award and i really wanted for two years after that to see what happened during my. when i was your with my life and not understand where i come from. a professional sailor evolved on your own has won many prizes and set world records in twenty te

return a yield as both landscape architect and fama jefferson again combined aesthetics and utility the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture he himself toiled passionately to cultivate useful plants working the soil with his own hands he would much rather have been a farmer than president. mounted chalo was intended as a miniature example of his great political ideal of an agrarian state as such it had to support its inhabitants but without slaves the little agrarian state would have collapsed they lived in small huts within sight of the great house after working on the plantation they made nails furniture and textiles. according to his slave isaac mr jefferson was a compassionate master. ironically isaac surname was also jefferson but no significance can be attached of a coincidence. we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the declaration of independence jefferson

more treasure landscape in less than any other state but extraction industry, oil, gold, silver,n zinc, are always lookg to spoil the state. >> did tr ever visit alaska? >> guest: he never did. his opportunity to, with an expedition in 1899 but he got back from the spanish american war and then ran for governor of new york. g but what he did was receive the volume of the report which was josh and johnto and others who wrote these reports on what were our heirlooms, what need to be saved, two and today that are just under pressure to develop, our greatest fishing and was built with all these laws to say the salmon run of alaska now on the pebble mine company out of anglo-american corporation of been canada is trying to destroy the great fishing areas that roosevelt fought to say. the same with the arctic refuge. dwight eisenhower, your hearing drill baby drill up there. oil was sent to 60 people want to go into a great wildlife refuge. that would be like mining the grand canyon or chopping can redwood trees and redwood national park. it's a badve idea but with the public doesn't get up

america without an alaskan welder -- more temperatured landscape in alaska than any state extraction sits, oil, gold, sill very, sink, always looking to despoil the state. >> host: did tr ever visit alaska. the visited himself opportunity come with the heriman expedition in 1899, be get from them at the spanishar and ran for governor of new york but he selfed volumes of -- received volumes of the report of others who went to alaska and wrote reports, what were or heirlooms, what needed to be saved two areas today just under pressure to develop, bristol by a, the greatest fish can area and roosevelt did all these lieus to save the sam ron rub and now the pebble mine company out of angelo anglo-american corporation is trying destroy the great fishery areas that roosevelt fought to save and same with a arctic refuge, eisenhower crated it and now your hail drill, baby, dreamt that is like mining the grand canyon or chopping down redwood trees average it's bad idea but because the public doesn't see the arctic where a polar den and the great caribou herd, they think of it as energy instea

you stay with them long enough, it is a little bit like standing in that landscape long enough untilome familiarity, when you look and you see that you're looking at more than you notice, and with him, he have time enough to merge as someone we are interested in, and we're hoping for the best for. that is interesting, we hope for the best for him. that is an intriguing observation. we will not say how the book ends except that there are unexpected events at the end. what we know is that he is hunting for something, it is notjust escape. he is hunting for what he would call love of some kind. with his cousin, and he thinks this will be a relationship that would take him somewhere. that is a positive side from the beginning, it is a quest. he is learning for decency, as he called it. peace and decency. he feels that no one has ever been decent to him except for this girl that he is walking 300 km to. she is the only person in the world who cares about him. because of the damaged man he meets is a priest or an ex—priest, there is inevitably a kind of spiritual context, not an overtly re

only to go landscape use more and more polarized the right getting. more of a right the right landscape piece is getting very strong and the left that left us with a socialist government. left. i think is very polarized and this is going to be very good for probably another group of the liberal democrats. that they're finding themselves right in the middle. class was reporting from the spanish capital madrid thank you for joining us art let's get you were caught up now with some of the other stories making news around the world . the european union has temporarily suspended its naval operation in the mediterranean sea that's as italy were fuses to accept migrants rescued by its vessels operation sofia was launched back in twenty fifteen to tackle migrant smugglers but it has increasingly found itself rescuing people at sea the e.u. is now reviewing the mission. with a mass for peace the divine mercy church in nicaragua as capital managua has reopened its doors the church came under siege a week ago when critics of president ortega took refuge inside g

i think the landscaping is the least important part of these. the kiosks and the toilets themselves are the most important. what will matter tremendously here, the materials. and i'm very worried about the scratch-resistance because i think that's the form of graffiti that will be the hardest to maintain. without seeing a materials board, it's hard to comment on that, but it will be critical. one final comment. i'm sure there's an historic district reason for this, but on the kiosks, i prefer the rounded corners. i think they're superior, if you can make that work. >> commissioner wolfram: thank you. >> i just wanted to note that part of the old, historic -- the old design of the kiosks, one of the generous contributions that jcdecaux had partnered with the arts commission has been providing resources to support the display of the related exhibition materials or promotional materials, i should say, so we've had the benefit of being able to showcase art organizations and artists and we're in conversation to see how we can continue that in this ar

i think the landscaping is the least important part of these. the kiosks and the toilets themselves are the most

tolkien is said to have been inspired by the area's landscapes and architecture for his novel the lord of the rings'. villages such as by brewery with its seventeenth century cottages and a lovely street called arlington row and burton on the water nicknamed the venice of the cotswolds attract hordes of tourists every year. the area's gardens are also a big tourist destination especially court gardens. things grow very well and we're lucky with the climate i mean we have good soil and then. cold winters but not very cold and then warm so most but not very hot so plants respond very well. gardens is the creation of three generations of women gardeners and chambers gave up a job in london to return here a few years ago. the gardens are some of the few private guards to be open to the general public. visitors particularly like the exotic plants that thrive here because of the mild climate in the. it's always been a farming community so far most of looked after the hedges and fields of beautifully kept and people have planted lots of trees it's just. the heights of use the very attractive

picturesque landscapes. rugged mountain. valleys and quite farming villages just some of the things you can expect to see on the new hiking path across the alps. the journey begins with a leisurely start in southern germany in good one on lake taken say. the members of those hiking group have one thing in common no one is an expert and they have no idea if they have what it takes to complete the seven day tour so it is this minute i read that you go past some really high alpine peaks but that the trail is actually quite pleasant uncomfortable to walk the stuff apparently there are some kriti small hotels along the way so yeah just a few nice days in the mountains soon i'm nice she raised nice hiking paths. then i'll just wait and see. with a mix of easy and moderate paths the tour guide you to the alpine ridge the total distances one hundred ten kilometers. austrian guide pub lotta devise the route. up to somebody heights and i move at once especially appealing about crossing the aisle says that you can start from your home

you have written before in books, in your novels, about the power of the landscape, the power of thee nature of that place. it is clear that western australia just haunts you every hour of your life. even if you are a callow youth, as i was when i first went out camping and hunting in that landscape, eventually just by the nature of the differential in size and scale of it and you, you are forced... you are forced outside your comfort zone, mentally as well as physically. i want to ask you finally, it is the question i think anybody would begin to ask themselves as they go on this journey with jaxie, and it is this — how much has he changed and in what way by the end of the book? yeah, that is the sort of central question, really. he is a different boy to the kid that we first know in the beginnings of the book and he has been through, you know, violent and profound and often comical experiences. yes, i think he is a different person at the end of the book. whether he is different enough as a boy, so that he is, you know, our daughters and sisters and friends won't fear him, remains

but for a long time there was a classic all—american iconic creature that was missing from this landscapehe largest terrestrial animals in north america, roamed across the land, but they nearly became extinct thanks to mass slaughter and habitat loss. by the time old ranches like these were opened in the late 19th century, the number of bison had collapsed to less than 1000 across the whole of the usa. and, look, down here we've got some old bison hide. whoa. that's thick. but the truth is ranching and cattle rearing have not covered themselves with glory, earning a bad rap for destroying biodiversity and overgrazing. but now this same ranch, converted back from a shortlived spell as a luxury golf course and a high in spa resort, is at the vanguard of a nationwide mission to reverse these disastrous trends. there is one family of ranchers, the phillips, who've been managing this place since 2004, but who have been in the ranching game for four generations. i am going to talk to a fourth—generation. duke. how're you doing? how are you? very good. they call you little duke. no, not any more

. >> would that be part of the landscape improvements? >> yeah, it could potentially be incorporated into the landscape on the island. we haven't kind of found the right location for it yet but that's one of the opportunities, either in the landscaping or one of the plazas. there's also neighborhood pocket parks throughout the residential area. so there's a number of potential opportunities. >> yeah, i would think we have a lot of great opportunities for something like a fountain and we seem to have space for it, it would be nice to take it out of storage and put it back in use. >> there was one element of the fountain which has, not quite certain at what point it disappeared but it originally had two whales that were at the center of the fountain. the fountain itself is a map of the pacific. it has a topographical type of texture to it, so it indicates the islands and so forth. and in the center of the island, there were two, i believe brass whales that spouted water and what the fate of those was is unknown. but we have all of the terra

yeah, we live in a place where there's more landscape than people, more landscape than culture.he surface, it doesn't look like much is going on. but the closer you look... yeah, and if you stop, it's stopping. modern people, we're always hurtling around and you don't see anything because you're moving all the time. if you stop and look, stuff bubbles up out of what seems to be an empty and forbidding landscape and it's not what it appears. to those of us who don't live in australia, it is a pretty remote and forbidding place, in parts, western australia. and you've said in the past, you've said, you know, it is the wrong side of the wrong continent in the wrong hemisphere. you seem quite aware of how... from the great literary salons of new york and london, how it's quite isolated. i was acutely aware of that as a young writer. i knew that we were just so far away, out of mind, truly out of mind. so you're writing into a great, sort of, indifference. and the urge to leave, the urge to, sort of, pack up andjoin them was there. the pressure to do that, to leave your provincial or