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Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby trained in art and landscape architecture with Ian McHarg, who mentored him on Design with Nature. Mr. Ingoldsby’s work combines art, science and technology to advocate for vanishing landscapes and endangered species. The artist can play an integral role in the raising of the public consciousness through advocacy. Art can be used to communicate complex ecological and scientific principles to an audience outside of the confines of the academy. This eulogy for Vanishing Landscapes and Endangered Species must be told with an urgency that speaks to the immediacy of the visible and documented changes in our world. The collaborative works examine, explain and illustrate issues as climate change, fragmentation of the landscape, broken trophic cascades, species shifts and extinction, and the loss of the natural and cultural landscape. Fragmentation of the Natural and Cultural Landscape I am interested in exploring the natural and cultural history of the Midwest. The lecture outlines the historic, political and technological shifts that advanced the westward manifest destiny, and their impacts on the natural and cultural landscapes of the region. The illustrated lecture traces out the progressive imprint and impact of settlement and infrastructure on the native landscape over time. The lecture is outlined in the following slides. I. Physiographic Regions of the Lower 48 United States • Pacific Mountain system • Intermontane Plateaus • Rocky Mountain System • Interior Highlands • Interior Plains - Interior Low Plateaus - Central Lowland - Great Plains Province • Appalachian Highlands - New England Province • Atlantic Plain • Laurentian Upland II. Great Plains • Tall Grass Prairie • Wildland Fire and Ecosystems • Indigenous People of the Great Plains • American Bison • Transcontinental Railroads John Deere • Agricultural Settlement History • The Dust Bowl III. Icons of the Vanishing Prairies • American Bison • Gray Wolf • Bald Eagle • Nachusa Grasslands • Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie IV. Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna • Indigenous People of the Prairie and Savanna - Settlements and Effigy Mounds • Whooping Cranes • Silent Shadows of Whooping Cranes • Environmental Advocacy for an Endangered Species • Shrouds for an Endangered Species • Spirits of Whooping Cranes • Crane Effigy Mounds - Design Precedents • Massasauga Rattlesnake - Serpent Mound • Karner Blue Butterfly V. Landscape Mosaics • Panicum virgatum Mosaics • Wetland Plan Palette, Necedah • Wetland Mosaic • Sand Plain • Sand Plain Mosaic • Coastal Sand Dunes • Sand Dune Mosaic • Leaves in Grass • Leaves in Grass, detail VI. Requiem for a Drowning Landscape • Salt Marsh Memorial Plan • Salt Marsh Memorial Installation • Salt Marsh Requiem Plan • Salt Marsh Dieback Documentation • Salt Marsh Dieback • Salt Marsh Broken Tropic Cascade VII. Landscape Mosaics • Anadromous Fishery • Anadromous Awakening