landscape

Along with the physical preservation of the built environment on the Taliesin Estate, Taliesin® Preservation, Inc. has sought to restore the landscape environment of the 600-acre Taliesin Estate to the last decade in which Wright lived (1950-1959). However, landscape, unlike the built environment, is created out of living and changing things and is therefore inherently mutable. TPI's goals in landscape management are:

• To restore the predominant plant species from the last decade of Wright’s life.
• To suppress invasive plant species on the Taliesin Estate
• To replant significant trees on the Taliesin Estate

In 1999, TPI hired Barbara Wyatt, ASLA, to prepare a Historic Landscape Report. As a result of this report, TPI has prepared and implemented a Forestry Management Plan and a Landscape Management Plan.

The Landscape Management plan outlines a program for the control of invasive species and the return of the landscape to its appearance in the 1950s. The plan outlines some of the following initiatives that TPI completed and continues to maintain:

• “Midway Hill” - This has revealed one of the limestone outcroppings on the Taliesin Estate
• The “Highway 14 triangle” - This work removed prickly ash and opened a protective area for the oak savannah and pine plantation naturally growing on the site
• The hill below Romeo and Juliet Windmill tower - This project included the removal of substantial amounts of honeysuckle, which is the main woody invasive species problem at Taliesin
• The “Welsh Hills” – The removal of invasive Cedars and the execution of controlled burns.