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R.O. Anderson provides landscape architecture services for the development and preservation of landscape design throughout northern Nevada, including the environmentally sensitive Lake Tahoe Basin. Our staff has an appreciation for nature and creative instinct to meet our clients’ aesthetic, environmental and water conservation needs for parks, open space, educational institutions, mixed-use communities, private residential estates, commercial sites, and small urban gardens.

Our firm specializes in site planning and development, sustainable design, environmental mitigation, revegetation, irrigation plans, and erosion control measures. R.O. Anderson is careful to perform site surveys at the onset of a project in order to take into consideration the natural drainage, slope of the land, and sun exposure. We work to provide solutions to environmental problems instead of creating them.

We work closely with government agencies and municipalities, as well as private clients, to develop project details and illustrative drawings that create captivating environments. Our services include preparation of design concepts and presentation packages, including cost estimates and preliminary sketches. We assist our clients in engaging community input in order to make positive connections between the residents’ personal lives and the environment in which they live. Once a design is selected, we provide design development details for construction detailing, and participate in on-site construction observation.

Through our landscape design and planning, we strive to increase the quality of life of the communities we serve by creating a sense of place and a sense of community.

River Fork Ranch Trails Master Plan – The Nature Conservancy

February 7, 2012 By ROA

Located on the historic 800-acre River Fork Ranch near Genoa Nevada, the River Fork Ranch project, lead by The Nature Conservancy, included the planning and design of a five-phase trail system with the goal of providing educational and active opportunities for the general public while maintaining minimal disruption to the sustainable agriculture, and restored native wetlands, floodplain, water ways, and habitats The Nature Conservancy practices on the site.

R.O. Anderson was engaged to prepare a master plan for the trail system, as well as the design documents necessary for construction, permitting, and construction bid process. Due to funding restrictions, only Phase 1 of construction has moved forward at this time. R.O. Anderson prepared the topographical survey for design for the project. The project’s features includes an extensive trail system to provide access to a variety of natural points of interest provided by the site, including public access to the Carson River, an ADA compliant outdoor interpretive addition to the existing Whit Hall Interpretive Center, featuring a path, signage, planting areas, and boardwalks, and providing key connection points to several future off site trailhead locations all while working to minimize the project footprint thorough the use of existing, recycled, and natural materials.

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Hung-A-Lel-Ti Community Park – Woodfords, California

April 12, 2011 By ROA

R.O. Anderson was engaged by Alpine County Public Works Department to create a 2-acre native park site located at a highly used community center for the Woodfords Community of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. R.O. Anderson performed a detailed topographic survey of the site for use in the design of the conceptual landscape plans, hydrology calculations, and channel design.

Upon completion of the conceptual plans and recommended channel design to convey 100 year storm flows through the site, members of our firm met with Tribal Council Members and community members to discuss the project and its overall importance to the community.  We obtained community feedback and revised plans to reflect legitimate concerns. We then prepared Construction Drawings for the implementation of the culturally significant park using native and culturally important design principals.  The plan includes a 4,000 square foot community talking circle, ADA accessible pedestrian circulation, and the native revegetation of all disturbed areas.

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Regional Park Master Plan – Bishop, California

April 12, 2011 By ROA

The City of Bishop’s Pine to Park Path project began as a desire for a safer pedestrian connection to the existing city park, and blossomed into a comprehensive park master plan designed to meet the recreational and leisure needs of the citizens of Bishop and Inyo County.  R.O. Anderson was retained by the City to prepare the City Park Master Plan which integrated an expanded pedestrian circulation plan, accommodations for the city’s very active adult and youth softball, soccer, and football leagues, an arboretum and community garden, as well as a community center and performing arts building.

Many challenges with the existing park facilities were addressed included limited parking facilities, upgrading a variety of existing active courts, and designating a dog park for canines who frequently visited the park with their owners.

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