Landscape architects directly impact public health, safety, and welfare. As a licensed professional engineer myself, I agree that licensure is the most appropriate form of regulation to ensure that the public is adequately protected.  I routinely rely on my professional landscape architect colleagues for complex services that require highly technical skills related to site plans, grading plans, roadway and pedestrian improvements, storm water and erosion control plans which require that all work be sealed by licensed professionals. Consequently, the scope of landscape architecture overlaps with other licensed design professionals including architects, engineers, and surveyors.  I strongly recommend maintaining the licensure requirement for professional landscape architects.