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The University of Idaho Landscape Architecture club (UILA) conducted the first in a series of four workshops to inform, educate, and produce student portfolios. The workshops are open to all students in landscape architecture and architecture departments.

The first workshop was a presentation of portfolios from landscape architecture and architecture students and professionals. The focus was on demonstrating a wide variety of portfolio styles and themes to help students generate ideas for the next workshop.

A grant was recently approved by the University of Idaho Sustainability Center for a Community Rainwater Harvest Demonstration Garden at the historic Art & Architecture Building on the UI Campus.

This interdisciplinary collaboration of University of Idaho graduate and undergraduate students, as well as local community members will demonstrate state of the art, sustainable irrigation system supplied with harvested rainwater.

Students from Landscape Architecture, the University of Idaho Landscape Architecture Club (UILA), Mechanical Engineering, and the Dept of Conservation Social Sciences will participate in this highly visible project.

The UILA has agreed to assist with upkeep and maintenance, especially during establishment (pulling weeds, additional plantings, etc.). Once established, the proposed plant palette will be mostly "self-sustaining." At that point, the club is committed to helping with maintenance (cleaning filters etc) of the catchments system. The UILA will play a crucial role in assuring that this project will continue to benefit and give back to UI students, the UI, and the UISC, with strong support from Dept Chair and other professors.

The project will be completed by Fall 2007 with ongoing monitoring of the results through Spring 2008.