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Historical Restoration Of Usu's Passive Recreation Garden, Jeremy Nelson
Historical Restoration Of Usu's Passive Recreation Garden, Jeremy Nelson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Laval Morris was the founder of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
department at USU. He is an important figure in the history of our university the state and
intermountain region. One of the last remaining landscapes that he designed for the university is
USU’s Passive Recreation Garden.
Over time the garden has become degraded, overrun by invasive plants and was almost
completely destroyed in 2004. It is important to preserve and restore this garden because of its
importance to Laval and to the history LAEP at Utah State University.
My thesis is a documentation of the gardens importance and …