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Over the past two decades, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has dramatically expanded its involvement in planning and conservation on a landscape scale. During the past two years, much of this work has been refocused, with the added complication of a potential headquarters relocation. What does the future hold for landscape scale work at the BLM?
The World Rural Landscape Principles provide needed systematic definitions for rural landscapes as both a place and as a heritage resource within the larger category of cultural landscapes. This innovative approach looks at the commonality of these resources within a global context and recognizes the many types of rural activity that exist in the landscape and are worthy of consideration for protection.
The Vatika Bay Maritime Landscape at the southern end of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece exemplifies the interconnection between cultural and natural resources and different approaches to their conservation. As a marine ecosystem, the bay supports numerous endangered and exotic plant and animal species. As the crossroad of both ancient and modern of Mediterranean navigation, it has many underwater archeological remains. This article highlights the differing preservation strategies and outcomes for these interrelated resources.
What are the best ways to identify and conserve rural landscapes? Since 2012, participants at a series of international meetings have sought to answer this complex question, in part through the development of a new set of shared general principles. The initiative is being lead by the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL). The […]
Transhumance – the practice of seasonally moving livestock from winter pastures in the lowlands to summer grazing in the mountains – is an ancient intangible and cultural tradition practiced all over the world. The term usually invokes quaint and idyllic images of sheepherders in the European Alps or Pyrenees Mountains and not Wyoming cowboys. Read how the Upper Green River Cattle Association has kept this tradition alive in the United States.
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