The Environmental Landscape Technology program offers a rewarding career for students interested in learning about and improving the natural environment and our communities. This program integrates hands-on and academic study in the areas of Environmental Technology and Landscaping. Landscape management is concerned with the long-term care and development of new and existing landscapes. The landscape manager will be called upon to exercise a range of skills with environmental, horticultural, and land use dimensions. The focus of study encompasses the entire ecosystem with special emphasis given to practical training and technical knowledge required by employers in private and public organizations. Students will gain valuable hands-on experience on the school’s landscaped grounds, turf grass areas, woodland and wetland areas.

Graduates are prepared with a diverse range of skills applicable to the many green career fields. Within the environmental technology curriculum, students will acquire a wide variety of skills in areas such as ecology and ecological restoration, environmental sampling and analysis, landscape design, maintenance, and construction, greenhouse/nursery operations, integrated pest management, machinery operation, and turfgrass management. Students plan and design projects, operate a wide variety of grounds maintenance equipment, identify plants, diagnose plant problems, lay pavers and build small ponds. ELT offers students skills in computer-aided drafting used to generate landscape designs. Projects like conducting pollution studies, or restoring the campus wetland and woodland areas will bring ecologically-based principles and best management practices to life!

Students will have the opportunity to work in a commercial scale greenhouse and produce a wide variety of crops. Students will learn plant identification, the latest propagation and nursery techniques, and the skills necessary to work in a greenhouse career. Students will be involved in the production of perennials, bedding plants, grasses, and native trees and shrubs.

Environmental Landscaping students will receive training that prepares them to take a certification exam through the Associated Landscape Contractors of America as a Maintenance Technician and/or Installation Technician.

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Last updated 10/2011.