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Nancy Aten (she/her) has an M.S.. Engineering; M.L.A., Landscape Architecture; is a licensed landscape architect and a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner. She is principal of Landscapes of Place, offering landscape restoration planning and design, ecological restoration and land stewardship services.

Dan Collins (he/him), P.E. (Engineering), is a restoration consultant and program manager at Landscapes of Place, where he applies scientific methods to ecological restoration, planning, implementation and long-term management of landscapes as they are brought to higher levels of ecological function.

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Dan leading a forest hike

Teaching Beloved Native Plant Communities for The Clearing

Wetland discovery with 4th-graders

Teaching with Chris Young in the Menomonee Valley

With Alice Thompson, Wetlands Workshop

With Urban Ecology Center's Tim Vargo and science team, Bay Shore Blufflands

With Anton Reznicek, Sedges Workshop

With Darrel Morrison and Bob Grese, The Clearing

Dan teaching a high school field trip, Leopold Shack

Aquatic macroinvertebrate monitoring, southeastern Wisconsin

Learning herps with 4th-graders

With Bob Freckmann, Grasses Workshop

Along our Menomonee River (photo courtesy Susan B)

Group out for a frog walk, Bay Shore Blufflands

Dan receiving Wetland Hero award

With Door County Land Trust's Jodi Milske and Cinnamon Rossman

Wetland advocacy with Wisconsin Wetlands Association's Katie Bielfuss on public radio

Field class in northern Wisconsin (photo courtesy Betsy A)

Nancy, designing to music with Darrel Morrison, New Directions in the American Landscape

With ecologist Mike Grimm

Learning from a snake, Menomonee Valley

Native tree planting with Door County Climate Change Coalition

Bonus, leading wetland hike with rain :)

Nancy leading landscape architects on a tour in the Menomonee Valley

With Jim Reinartz (and Alice Thompson), Vegetation of Wisconsin Workshop

Soil probe, Vegetation of Wisconsin Workshop

"Does everybody like snakes?" - how to temporarily adapt a hike while it's pouring rain.

Wetland discovery with 4th-graders

With biologist Gary Casper

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2019 Butternut Award, The Clearing

September 7, 2019: Dan Collins and Nancy Aten honored with 2019 Butternut Award from The Clearing. “The Butternut Award is the Clearing’s highest award for volunteer service. Those who receive it represent the best of what has always been The Clearing’s greatest strength—dedicated people who love this remarkable place.” We are deeply grateful.
2016 Hawthorn Award, The Clearing

September 10, 2016: Dan Collins and Nancy Aten honored with 2016 Hawthorn Award from The Clearing. "Those who receive the Hawthorn Award emulate that venerable tree by faithfully giving breadth and bigness to the ongoing work of The Clearing". Also see a nice story about some of our work at The Clearing.
2016 Public Outreach Award, WNY-APA (WNYLC Team)

September 9, 2016: Congratulations to the Western New York Land Conservancy and Make Communities for the 2016 WNY APA Public Outreach Award for the Stella Niagara Preserve Vision Plan, which includes our work.
2014 Wetland Hero Award, Wisconsin Wetlands Association

October 30, 2014: Dan Collins and Nancy Aten honored with a 2014 Wetland Hero Award from Wisconsin Wetlands Association.
2012 Visibility Award, WI-ASLA

November 20, 2012: Landscapes of Place receives Visibility Award from the Wisconsin Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects
2012 Conservation Leader, Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters

June 15, 2012: Dan Collins honored as one of four state-wide Conservation Leaders at the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters' 10th Anniversary Celebration.
2012 Honor Award, American Society of Landscape Architects

November 18, 2011: Landscapes of Place receives 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for Making a Wild Place. Watch our project’s ASLA 2011 Awards video excerpt. Our award reads, for "Certain Frogs, Toads, Herons, and Dragonflies who are happy to have a home in the Menomonee Valley once again".
2012 Honor Award Press Release, American Society of Landscape Architects

November 1, 2011: Press release for ASLA award. Nancy interviewed on WUWM's Morning Edition about the ASLA Award and the Menomonee Valley.
2006: Leadership Award, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful

October 20, 2006: Nancy Aten receives Leadership Award, I.D.E.A.L. Environmental Awards, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful
2003 Solitary Glove Service Award, Institute of Ecology UGA

May 9, 2003: Nancy receives Solitary Glove Service Award, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, including for her work with S.E.E.D.S, their Tanyard Branch stream restoration efforts, and their Sustainable Design + Education conference.
2003 ASLA Award of Honor, College of Environment and Design UGA

May 1, 2003: Nancy receives ASLA Award of Honor, College of Environment and Design, University of Georgia. (And designs College’s logo, as shown.)