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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS COULD OWN THAT WORK The problem is, the rain barrels approved by the program, like the ones I've seen for sale elsewhere, are all ugly A friend of mine who was taking part in the RiverSmart... along the Blue Ridge Parkway near its entrance to the park One of my best memories is of Bill standing nose to nose with the Bureau of Public Roads engineers along a road "P" line to argue successfully for an alignment change on behalf of the park's landscape I hope that LAM and other generalinterest publications will feature more of these kinds ofexamples so that the public will appreciate the truly... 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