In light on a couple recent posts on parks and conservation lands (on which I hope to comment soon), some of you might be interested in participating or monitoring the discussion being help this week here.  The Designing the Parks initiative is sponsored by the National Park Service, UVA, and a mess of NGOs.  In a conference earlier this year they attempted to “to assess lessons learned through an examination of park planning and design history” and, come December, they will reconvene in San Francisco to hash out a picture of the future look of our parklands.  The latter is the topic of the current online forum.  White it’s aimed primarily at landscape architects, we certainly can’t leave them to their own devices.