Pineview Reservoir study proposes dramatic long-term changes to keep pace with use
HUNTSVILLE — Pineview Reservoir is one of the key tourist draws in Weber County, attracting around a million visitors a year, federal officials estimate. But more could be done to enhance its features, to make it more user-friendly, according to an ambit...
Finding Our Sense of Place
On November 18, 2020, USU Research Landscapes featured David Anderson and Jake Powell of the Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning department to discuss how communities can recognize, strengthen, and defend the key physical and social features t...
Zoned & Watered, Jake Powell explains how policy shapes community
In part two of our episodes with Jake Powell, an environmental planner with USU’s Department of Landscape Architect and Environmental Planning, he describes how communities can build resilience on both an economical and social level. He delves into the e...
Crafting ideals & outdoor spaces, with Landscape Architect David Anderson
David Anderson, a landscape architect with USU’s Department of Landscape Architect and Environmental Planning and USU extension, walks us through the difference between an architect, a landscape architect, and a civil engineer. Spoiler, there’s a lot of o...
Hometowns need vision. Here’s your Helper, with Jake Powell
Jake also walks us through the work of USU Extension generally; how it takes the research out of journals and makes it more accessible to people in their daily lives. And we explore how towns can and should create a vision for their future including the i...
A New Vision for Downtown Pocatello with Landscape Architecture, Todd Johnson
Pause and notice the key items in your community. What makes people visit, stay, engage with the town? Todd Johnson, USU’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning practitioner in residence tunes in with us today, along with graduate student Jim ...
Utah State University Awards Community Engagement Champions
Dave Anderson, Dave Evans, and Jake Powell, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Extension faculty, received the Community-Engaged Faculty award. The trio was nominated for their extraordinary efforts to serve communities across the Intermounta...
Conservation and Engagement by Design
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) utilizes the disciplines of design and planning to analyze what the landscapes of Utah are today and to envision and advocate for what they could become in the future
New Faculty Fellow at IORT - Jake Powell
The Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (IORT) at Utah State University is pleased to welcome a new Faculty Fellow ... Jake Powell. The Faculty Fellows program helps to network researchers who want to explore questions about outdoor recreation man...
2018 Campus RainWorks Challenge
Titled The New Heart, this team designed a green street corridor with the intent to recharge groundwater with treated runoff, reduce impermeable surfaces, retain design storms as required by local municipalities, eliminate the need for supplemental irriga...