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E-Mail A diverse team of recent alumni and students from the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently named one of only ten winners worldwide for their stunning self-sustaining eco-restoration base, Ripple. As winners of the 2020 Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) International Design Challenge, the team will get to actually build their design this summer on the Fly Ranch in the Nevada desert, a 3,800 acre property recently acquired by the Burning Man Project. These will be the first permanent structures on the Fly Ranch, which is a protected ecosystem with many of its own maintenance and restoration challenges. With their Ripple design, the team will create a flexible space that allows humans to regenerate native plant diversity and ecological wisdom of the Great Basin region, in an effort to pay equal homage to the land and the indigenous tribes who once lived there. ....