100th Anniversary of the National Park Service
Larry Walling’s professional career spanned more than 31 years with the National Park Service’s Denver Service Center. This office, located in Lakewood, Colorado, provides planning, design and construction services to the 410 units of the National Park System. More than 240 professional designers and engineers protect and preserve cultural and natural resources while providing infrastructure facilities at all scales in sensitive locations of national and international significance.
In retirement Larry has assisted the U.S. Department of the Interior – International Technical Assistance Program and USAID, by leading teams of professionals to Tanzania and the Republic of Georgia. In Tanzania he worked with the Tanzania National Parks on several Wildlife Management Areas adjacent to well known parks and, during a subsequent trip, in Gombe National Park with the Jane Goodall Institute. On four trips to the Republic of Georgia, with multidisciplinary teams, he produced schematic designs for park facilities, lectured and taught classes on best practices of sustainable infrastructure and facility management.
Service to his profession includes:
• Practitioner member of accreditation teams for Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board.
• Member, Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board.
• Conduct Candidacy Reviews for Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board.
• Chair, Alumni Advisory Board, Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning, Kansas State University.
• Member, Council on Education, American Society of Landscape Architects.
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Honors:
• Fellow American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA)
• Alumni Fellow, College of Architecture, Planning & Design, Kansas State University.
• ASLA Honor Award, Zion Canyon Transportation System, Zion National Park.
• Federal Design Achievement Award, National Endowment of the Arts, Presidential Design Awards.