PRESS & AWARDS


FPC has a long track record of award-winning planning and design. Our work has been the subject of cover stories in Landscape Architecture and Restoration Ecology magazines. More recently, projects built by FPC have been featured in both film and museum exhibits at the Heard Museum, one of the most notable Native American museums in the United States.

Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, including its Yuma East Wetlands project was used as a case study for heritage areas in Charting a Future for National Heritage Areas, a study published by the National Park System Advisory Board. Yuma Crossing national Heritage Area was designated one of the top 10 Heritage Areas.

Landscape Architecture Magazine,  “Same River Twice: A massive project returns diversity and health to lower Colorado River wetlands and suggests new definitions of landscape restoration”, by Kim Sorvig, November 2009 Issue

Ecological Restoration Magazine, feature cover story,  “Restoring a Colorado River Wetland”, by Fred Phillips, Charles Flynn, and Heidi Kloeppel, December 2009 Issue

Landscape Architecture Magazine, feature cover story,  “Dessert Passage: An ecological restoration on the banks of the Colorado test a young practitioners mettle”, by Bill Johnson, March 2000 Issue

Natives Peoples Magazine,  “The ‘Ahamacave, Down the Colorado”,  by Fred Phillips, June 2000 Issue

Restoration Ecology 'Ahakhav Tribal Preserve, Colorado River Indian Tribes Initiate a Major Riparian Restoration Project” University of Wisconsin Press

Featured in Arizona Highways

2007 National Public Works Project of the Year award in the category of projects less than $2 million. 
Yuma East Wetlands Restoration

2007 Arizona Chapter of Arizona Public Works Association (APWA), Recipient of the Public Works Project of the Year in the Environment (less than $2 million) category.
Yuma East Wetlands Restoration

2007 Commisioners Cooperative Conservation Award of Excellence
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior
Yuma East Wetlands Restoration
Awarded for building community connections in the Yuma East Wetlands

2004 Award of Excellence
Partner in Stewardship, Department of Interior
Awarded for building community connections in the Yuma East Wetlands

Outstanding Project of the Year
Bureau of Indian Affairs Woodlands Program
For the ’Ahahkav Tribal Preserve