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STEVEN N. RODIE entered the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Kansas State University with a strong desire to enhance his professional capabilities in landscape planning/design and natural resources management. Integrating his MLA studies and teaching assistantships with both a Bachelor of Science degree in forest management from Colorado State University and landscape contracting experience, Rodie developed a focus that has led to a varied career in landscape architecture and environmental planning. His academic record and research efforts were acknowledged through several awards, including a Graduate Honor Award from the Prairie Gateway Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); a National Distinguished Graduate Student Award from ASLA; and Tau Sigma Delta's Outstanding Student of the Year Award in the College of Architecture and Design. Upon graduation, he worked on a variety of design and environmental assessment projects with three Colorado design firms, including PGAV, Inc., in Colorado Springs; Design Workshop, Inc., in Aspen; and Sundesigns Architects in Glenwood Springs. Rodie joined the Visual Design Group at Dames & Moore in their Sacramento/San Francisco, California, offices in 1990. As a project manager and visual resources specialist, he applied his expertise to a wide range of projects, including the Alpine Meadows Ski Area Expansion, Lake Tahoe, California; a wetland feasibility study for the National Park Service at the Presidio in San Francisco, California; and numerous visual resource assessment projects in California, Oregon, Washington, Georgia and South Carolina. In 1994, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Horticulture as an Assistant Professor/Landscape Horticulture Specialist. He teaches in the pre-horticulture program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, maintains an adjunct position with the Department of Biology at UNO, and works with the region's green industry. Rodie is a registered landscape architect in Kansas and California, is a member of ASLA, and has served as an Executive Committee Member in ASLA chapters in Colorado and California.