ABSTRACT
From early explorations by naturalists to the classic sciences to the current interdisciplinary science and modeling of climate change, methods of codifying within practices of scientific modeling have mediated our understanding, manipulation, and management of the landscape. What follows is a glimpse of the scientific imaginary, the sites and material assemblages that mediate the conception and construction of the landscape through practices of scientific modeling. The Arnold Arboretum is a collaboration between the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles S. Sargent, a prominent author, explorer, and silviculturist who specialized in the forests and woods of North America and more broadly the northern hemisphere. As the founding editor of the journal Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry, he states that "In no other civilized nation of the world are forests so recklessly managed." The Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment is an eco-hydrological landscape scale physical model.
