The Lob Pine Award
A tradition since 1989
Our Highest Honor Since 1989
The Lob Pine Award is the highest honor given out by the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-MN). Recipients have demonstrated exemplary leadership and mentorship for our landscape architecture community over an extended period of time. The award is named after prominent pine trees that were trimmed to create distinct visual reference points for early voyagers in the northwoods.
The selection of the Lob Pine Award recipient is chosen solely by the acting President at their discretion and is kept confidential until the awards banquet each spring.
Past Honorees
2026: Rebecca Krinke
2025: Joe Favour
2024: Jean Garbarini
2023: Chris Behringer
2022: Kristine Miller
2021: Lydia Major
2020: Joni Giese
2019: Bruce Chamberlain
2018: John Slack
2017: Regina Bonsignore
2016: Frank Fitzgerald
2013: Richard Murphy Jr.
2012: Adam Arvidson
2011: Bryan Carlson
2010: David Motzenbecker
2009: John Koepke
2008: Joan MacLeod
2007: Greg Kellenberger
2006: Peggy Booth
2005: Jim Hagstrom
2004: Lance Neckar
2003: Bob Close
2002: Doris M. Sullivan
2001: Barry Warner
2000: Damon Farber
1999: Gregory Kopischke
1998: James R. Robin
1997: Joan I. Nassauer
1996: Roger D. Clemence
1995: Kent Worley
1994: William Sanders
1993: Herb Baldwin
1992: B. Keith Wehrman
1991: Marjorie Pitz
1990: Peter J. Olin
1989: Roger B. Martin