CAREER and BUSINESS EXPLORATION SGA Group (SGA) participated in the Buffalo, MN, Career and Exploration Day at Buffalo High School, on November 18, 2025. As part of that effort, one of the students indicated an interest in Landscape Architecture. On March 7, 2025, Gaia De Young visited SGA’s office and learned how a professional landscape…
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Graham Sones, co-founder and principal of SGA Group, was recently featured as an invited speaker, at the 2023 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference on Landscape Architecture, held this year in Minneapolis, MN, from October 27-30, 2023. Graham is a member and leading proponent of the Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network (PPN), which is…
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SGA Group co-founder and principal Graham Sones (pictured far left in photo) attended the 2023 Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) Annual Meeting, in Henderson, NV, on September 20-22, 2023. He attended as a representative of the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID). This year’s meeting…
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SGA Group co-founder Graham Sones attended the 2021 Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 22-24, 2021. Graham attended, in his capacity as a licensing board member. He is one of two landscape architect board members on the 21-member Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SGA Group, Inc. Co-Founder Graham Sones appointed to Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID). BUFFALO, MINNESOTA (UNITED STATES) – September 28, 2020 – SGA Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that Graham Sones has recently joined the Minnesota Board of AELSLAGID, effective July 1,…
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Mr. Gunderson is currently a Director-at-Large on the board of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), through 2020. He recently attended the quarterly CLARB Board of Directors (BOD) meeting in Nashville, TN, on March 6-7, 2020. His attendance at this meeting was “book-ended” by several traumatic events―violent tornadoes that struck down in the…
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Mr. Gunderson is currently a Director-at-Large on the board of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), through 2020. He recently attended the quarterly CLARB Board of Directors (BOD) meeting in Reston, VA, on December 13-14, 2019. The board meeting combined both the CLARB BOD and the CLARB Leadership Advisory Council (ALC) – a…
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Robert Gunderson attended the ASLA 2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture, held on November 15-18, 2019, in San Diego, CA. Mr. Gunderson participated in the educational sessions, alumni gatherings, and book signing events. He also attended, and contributed to, the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s (LAF) 34th Annual Benefit Event, held at The Prado, in Balboa Park. Limited…
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Mr. Gunderson (shown at right) attended the CLARB Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO, on September 26-28, 2019. In the above image, seated next to the CLARB parliamentarian, Bob – shown acting in his official capacity as secretary of the organization – counted ballots as part of a governance change intended to position the organization…
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Mr. Gunderson recently attended the Design With Nature Now conference, held on 21-22 June 2019, at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. This international conference marked the 50th anniversary of Ian L. McHarg’s landmark book Design with Nature. Bob was a student of McHarg at UPenn and fondly (sometimes not) remembers his daily interactions…
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