![AGC IN THE COMMUNITY](https://alaskacontractor.akbizmag.com/assets/2023/06/AGC-IN-THE-COMMUNITY.png)
n celebration of World Landscape Architecture Month, held each year in April, the landscape architects at Bettisworth North Architects set out to increase awareness of and educate others about the breadth and depth of their profession.
“Look out your window when driving through any area—a neighborhood, an urban center, a remote hospital campus, a public park—and a landscape architect almost certainly helped design what you see,” Principal Landscape Architect Mark Kimerer says.
The Bettisworth landscape team embarked on several community outreach efforts in the month of April:
![Winterberry Charter School fifth-graders work on their playground planting designs](https://alaskacontractor.akbizmag.com/assets/2023/06/wlamonth-2.webp)
![Landscape architect Stephanie Cloud helps Winterberry Charter School fifth-graders get started on their playground planting designs.](https://alaskacontractor.akbizmag.com/assets/2023/06/wlamonth-3.webp)
Kimerer and Leah Boltz, co-founder of Parks for All and principal of Bettisworth North, along with Donnie Hayes, Fairbanks North Star Borough director of parks and recreation, and Steve Cleary, executive director of Alaska Trails, joined KSKA’s Outdoor Alaska host Lisa Keller for a lively discussion panel about the role of landscape architects in creating parks and trails across the state.
![Landscape architect Stephanie Cloud, at bottom left, reviews design options for summer projects with Lacy Higham, top left, and Katie DiCristina, at right, both of UAF’s Georgeson Botanical Garden.](https://alaskacontractor.akbizmag.com/assets/2023/06/wlamonth-4.webp)
![Landscape architects Jonny Hayes, Anchorage Museum, and Mark Kimerer, Bettisworth North, discuss the breadth of landscape architecture during the recent podcast “Landscape Architecture: Empowering Communities.”](https://alaskacontractor.akbizmag.com/assets/2023/06/wlamonth-5.webp)