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Rainbow Springs Campground

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Division of Recreation and Parks, retained our firm to perform civil site design and prepare associated permit applications for the campground and tubing areas at the 2,500-acre Rainbow Springs State Park in Dunnellon. The FDEP wanted to upgrade its facilities by installing a tram station with ticket booth,… Read More »

Rethke Terrace Landscape Architecture

Heartland Housing selected Ayres to provide landscape architecture for a 60-unit, single-individual supportive housing facility on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin, that serves previously homeless individuals, including veterans. The goal was to provide urban agriculture while providing for restorative and recuperative outdoor spaces, all while supporting native ecological health and habitat and minimizing maintenance.… Read More »

Balsam Row Dam Fish Passage

Re-establishing a lake sturgeon population in the upper reaches of Wisconsin’s Wolf River is a longstanding objective of state and federal resource agencies and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. Currently the Balsam Row hydroelectric project outside Shawano is one of two remaining man-made barriers to sturgeon moving from the Lake Winnebago system upstream to… Read More »