Nancy Brunswick

Biography

Nancy Brunswick is the Regional Landscape Architect for the Intermountain Region of the US Forest Service, responsible for working with Forests and their landscape architects in Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, and southwestern Wyoming. As the regional LA she serves on the national Landscape Architecture Leadership Team, which provides direction and guidance for scenic resource and recreation planning and management on the National Forests and Grasslands.

Nancy began her career as a student landscape architecture trainee on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest while attending graduate school at Utah State. Her first career assignment was the west zone Landscape Architect on the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah. She transferred into a partnership position in 2000 with the Federal Highways Administration and the America’s Byways Resource Center as the first Federal lands byway specialist working the resource center staff. Nancy was responsible for developing training resources for interpretation, planning and scenic conservation for state and local byway organizations. Prior to moving to Ogden, UT, Nancy was the Forest Landscape Architect and Recreation Program Manager on the Cibola National Forests and Grasslands in New Mexico.

She was a contributing author for “Scenic Byways: A Design Guide for Roadside Improvements”, which received an award from the National Association for Interpretation. While working with the Resource Center, she was the project manager and a contributing author for “Conserving Our Treasured Places: Managing Visual Quality on Scenic Byways.”

Nancy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Utah State University.