Jim Burnett, FASLA is a leading voice in contemporary landscape practice through his writing, advocacy and dedication to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture.

Jim Burnett, FASLA is a leading voice in contemporary landscape practice through his writing, advocacy and dedication to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture.

Jim Burnett is a speaker and author who has pastored four churches in Mississippi in his thirty years in ministry. He has published a plethora of leadership articles for Christian magazines and has also written three Christian western series called Miracle at Caller's Spring Ranch, Jedidiah Justice, and Justice on the Frontier.

Founded in 1989 by James Burnett and led today by him and his partners nationwide, OJB and its landscape architects value the human condition and the importance of community. The work affirms the public realm as our shared responsibility—a place …

Oct 13, 2023 · Jim Burnett, FASLA is a leading voice in contemporary landscape practice through his writing, advocacy and dedication to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture.

Jim Burnett has had the unusual opportunity to enjoy not one, but two "dream careers." Three decades as a ranger with the National Park Service took him to eight parks: Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, Glacier, Buffalo River, Big Thicket, Lincoln Boyhood, National Capital Parks and Colonial.

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“During a 30-year career with the National Park Service, Jim Burnett witnessed the public at its best and also at its dumbest. Luckily, he took notes. Burnett’s wry observations of an urban public loose in the wilderness are both humorous and educational.” Ray Sasser, Dallas Morning News.

A veteran of thirty years as a ranger at eight national parks across the country, Jim Burnett shares an entertaining look at some of the humorous—and often bizarre—situations that can occur when a trip to the Great Outdoors just doesn’t turn out quite as expected.

Jim Burnett’s career as a National Park Service Ranger began at Grand Canyon National Park and culminated thirty years later as Chief Ranger at Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia.