Looking Back on Landscape Scale Conservation
October 6, 2021
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Watching the development of a national heritage area is a bit like observing the formation of a solar system. Partners large and small are attracted to the heritage area idea like planets around a sun and if the perceived benefits are powerful enough the gravitational force will bind them together around a unified vision. With the conservation movement’s interest in how to build effective large landscape networks examining how this actually happens on the ground might be productive. What lessons can we learn from the formation of the Washington Maritime National Heritage Area?
Please join the Living Landscape Observer on June 15, 2022 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm for a moderated discussion with Alan Spears, Senior Director of Cultural Resources in the Government Affairs department of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and Sara Capen, Executive Director of the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area. Register now.
A full recording is now available for this webinar. The moderated conversation highlights the history of the Conservation Landscape program in Pennsylvania, a unique state-supported
Right on time for the bicentennial of Fredrick Law Olmsted Sr.’s birth comes Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War. Abolition, and the National Park Idea by Rolf
Please join the Living Landscape Observer on April 1, 2022 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm for a moderated discussion with Cindy Dunn, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation. Learn about the Pennsylvania Conservation Landscapes Program. Register now.
Watching the development of a national heritage area is a bit like observing the formation of a solar system. Partners large and small are attracted to the heritage area idea like planets around a sun and if the perceived benefits are powerful enough the gravitational force will bind them together around a unified vision. With the conservation movement’s interest in how to build effective large landscape networks examining how this actually happens on the ground might be productive. What lessons can we learn from the formation of the Washington Maritime National Heritage Area?
Please join the Living Landscape Observer on June 15, 2022 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm for a moderated discussion with Alan Spears, Senior Director of Cultural Resources in the Government Affairs department of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and Sara Capen, Executive Director of the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area. Register now.
A full recording is now available for this webinar. The moderated conversation highlights the history of the Conservation Landscape program in Pennsylvania, a unique state-supported
Right on time for the bicentennial of Fredrick Law Olmsted Sr.’s birth comes Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War. Abolition, and the National Park Idea by Rolf
Please join the Living Landscape Observer on April 1, 2022 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm for a moderated discussion with Cindy Dunn, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation. Learn about the Pennsylvania Conservation Landscapes Program. Register now.