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What is a Botany Blitz? A Botany Blitz is a plant-focused community celebration of biodiversity. Sometimes these events are called BioBlitzes and may also focus on insects, fungi, salamanders, and the like, but this year’s event is focused on springtime wildflowers and other newly emerging plants. Using the iNaturalist app, citizen scientists from across the […]
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When Frederick Law Olmsted was commissioned to design a park system for Louisville in 1891, he was already the acknowledged father of America landscape design, famous for his work on Central Park in New York, the U.S. Capitol Grounds, and the Biltmore estate grounds. Olmsted’s greatest achievement, however, was his concept of creating a system of parks connected to tree-lined parkways, instead of freestanding parks as was the common practice. His concept was most fully realized in Louisville, the ultimate park system of his career, and one of only four completed such Olmsted systems in the world.