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66 Landscape Architect and Specifier News Streamside A recirculating stream with a gravel bottom, step stones and bridged crossings gives children the opportunity to build a beaver dam or test their balance wading across logs and stones. Design elements in this area include a stamped animal print colored concrete surfacing, ornamental metal perimeter fence with masonry piers and rustic branch fencing. Living Maze Prairie grasses form the edges of the maze, which has a gravel pathway that leads to a central gathering point. Hiding among the grasses are butterflies and native plantings that children can learn to identify. Design elements include crushed limestone surfacing pathways, fieldstone boulders, custom bug condos, bird and butterfly houses, quartzite splash basins, exhibit signage, spaces for future sculptures and pedestrian light poles. Dino Dig At Dino Dig Plaza children can explore the fields of paleontology and archeology by conducting their own excavations within the three sand pits and two prairie berms. They can unearth dinosaur bones that could be found on a South Dakota farm. Design elements include a stacked quartzite retaining wall, accessible dig table, fieldstone boulder outcroppings, stamped animal print colored concrete surfacing, ornamental metal perimeter fence with masonry piers, post and rail fencing, salvaged existing shelter, boardwalk, educational displays, dino cave with a vegetated background. Top Left Baby T-Rex, an animatronic tyrannosaurus dinosaur that stands seven feet tall, is enclosed in a post and railing fenced area made of crushed limestone surface walkways, quartzite boulders and stacked quartzite retaining walls. Bottom Left The landscape comes inside with giant butterflies and flowers in the newly structured entry pavilion. Here children learn from themed inside exhibits: Our Prairie, Sensations, Imagine a House and Kidstreet. Right Mama T-Rex is the only full-size, permanent, animatronic tyrannosaurus dinosaur in the United States. She stands 25 feet tall and is 60 feet long. 'Mama' is enclosed in a post and rail fenced area with crushed limestone surface walkways, quartzite boulders, and tree trunks and branches. (Continued on page 68) 64-69.indd 66 5/23/14 2:50 PM