Project Planning and Design

FPC has a long track record of award-winning planning and design.  Our work has been featured in Landscape Architecture, Restoration Ecology, Arizona Highways and many other publications. Our design work also has been featured in many books and magazines.  More recently the Heard Museum (one of the most notable Native American museums in the United States) has featured the ‘Ahakhav Tribal Preserve, a project designed, planned and built by Fred Phillips in film exhibits within the museum. We have completed conservation and restoration planning on more than 30,000 acres of Colorado River Corridor.  Our park designs have included the design and construction management of the Quechan Walking Trail Park, and the Ahakhav Tribal Preserve Nature Park.  We have completed master plans for more than 200 miles of trail systems including the Clark County Wetlands Park and the Bullhead City greenways trail system.  Our experienced landscape planners, designers and biologists use the most up-to-date information and techniques in designing natural landscapes, nature parks and greenways. In our twelve years experience we have developed, raised funds for and implemented several large-scale master plans totaling more than $15 million for “on the ground” implementation

Services Offered

Master Planning
Including park, trail, and development master plans to developing conservation/restoration strategies for communities.  Our collaborative planning process includes organizing stakeholders and existing project information, holding stakeholder workshops to identify all of the ideas, opportunities and constraints involved in the project, formulating a plan that suits a community's needs and following through with the identification and fundraising for a pilot project to get the plan off the ground and moving. 

Residential and commercial landscape design
Fred Phillips spent one year in the United Kingdom studying the design and construction of English gardens.  This experience has paved the way to many satisfied clients.  Our design focuses on the use of native plants, medicinal and edible plants and the wise use of water and building materials.  Our designs can also include play structures, rainwater collection systems, native plant nurseries and water features.

Park planning and design
Including site feasibility studies, grading plans, conceptual design, detailed design, planting plans, and infrastructure and irrigation layout.

Trails and recreation facilities
Including planning, public facilitation, trail mapping, facility design, interpretive signage, habitat improvement, planting design, monitoring, and maintenance.

Project Experience

‘Ahakhav Tribal Preserve Restoration Plan, Parker, Arizona
-Developed the restoration plan for 1,200 acre riparian/wetland restoration project and designed the restoration concept.
-Designed and planned 300 acres of native riparian plant restoration, 500 acres of aquatic/ wetland restoration and protection, a native plant nursery, 6-acre park and a 3.5 mile trail system.
Click for ‘Ahakhav Tribal Preserve slide show

Yuma East Wetlands Restoration Plan, Yuma, Arizona
-Organized and facilitated stakeholder and public consensus meetings, conducted baseline site and biological analyses, and developed and designed restoration plan for 1,400 acre riparian and wetland area based on commentary from constituents and baseline site information.
-Planned and designed more than 250 acres of riparian, wetland and aquatic habitat restoration projects.
Click for Yuma East Project slide show
Click to view a video of the Yuma East Wetlands Before Restoration
Click to view a video of the Yuma East Wetlands After Restoration

Limitrophe Restoration Strategy, Near Yuma, Arizona
Limitrophe Binational Restoration Project, Lower Colorado River
FPC has been working for the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area developing the Limitrophe Binational Restoration Project. This work has included stakeholder consensus building with more than 15 federal, state, private and non profit agencies. Currently we are completing the site analysis, wetland delineation, binational concept design, and facilitating the project stakeholder meetings. We also have completed a $600,000 grant application submitted to the Arizona Water Protection Fund. Other current project work includes working under Environmental Defense Fund to develop a documentary film on the project, working with the Bureau of Reclamation to complete the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) compliance for the project, and working with Pro Natura Noestra (a Mexican environmental agency) to plan volunteer plantings and trash clean-up days in both Mexico and the United States. In January of 2009 the Yuma Crossing National Heritage area will be hosting a binational restoration workshop, please email us if you are interested in attending. Stay tuned for more news on this exciting project.
Click for the Limitrophe Binational Restoration Project slide show

MSCP Tribal Conservation Opportunity Analysis Reports, Arizona
-Developed restoration plans, including GIS location and boundary maps and restoration project designs for the Hualapai, Cocopah, Ft. Mojave, Colorado River and Quechan Indian Tribes

Glen Canyon Revegetation Master Plan, North of Lees Ferry, Arizona
-Developed a revegetation master plan for the Colorado River corridor within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 15-mile reach from Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry, including identification of priority sites for restoration, a discussion on the feasibility of restoration, and identification of the appropriate native species and irrigation techniques to utilize in the different habitat types.
Click for the Glen Canyon - Lees Ferry slide show

Las Vegas Wash Revegetation Master Plan, Las Vegas, Nevada
-Developed a master plan to serve as a template for upland, riparian and wetland revegetation activities in the Wash. In the plan, sites along the Wash are ranked based on revegetation priority and feasibility in descriptive and GIS format. This plan outlines and details the necessary steps to successful revegetation projects from project compliance planning to revegetation project monitoring and maintenance.
Click for Las Vegas Wash slide show

Quechan Walking Trail Park, Quechan Indian Tribe, Yuma, Arizona
- Responsible for developing plan, conceptual park design, and construction documents for 20-acre community Quechan Walking Trail Park.
-Responsible for park construction, observation and project management.
Click for the Quechan Walking Trail Park slide show

Blue Water Resort and Casino Project, Parker, Arizona
-Landscape design and construction management of Casino Project

Clark County Wetlands Park, Las Vegas, Nevada
-Trail master plan design, mapping, public scoping, interpretive signage, and final report

Bullhead City Greenways Master Plan, Bullhead City, Arizona
-Developed master plan for 25-mile multi-use trail system along the Colorado River, including landscape design.

Other Completed Projects
-Multiple residential and small commercial landscape design and construction projects
-Design of children’s water sculpture gardens, formal English gardens and playgrounds