Walter H. Kehm developed his passion for landscape through bird watching in the Jamaica Bay wetlands surrounding JFK Airport in New York. He is a landscape architect, professor (emeritus), and former director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph. He has an international Practice and taught at many architecture and landscape architecture programs throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. He is the senior principal on the design and construction of the recently completed and award-winning Trillium Park at Ontario Place in Toronto.