Anthropogenic Landscapes: The Idea of PLACES
September 30, 2015
To provide observations and information on the emerging fields of landscape scale conservation, heritage preservation, and sustainable community development.
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It is not news that the current administration is unfriendly to landscape scale conservation. So, it is not surprising that a proposed a Department of Interior (DOI) rule-making has taken another step to discouragie landscape conservation. This time by making it more difficult for the public to nominate historic properties and in particular cultural landscapes to the National Register of Historic Places. The reason for this change is not hard to find. Recognition of the cultural value of landscapes is seen as an impediment to the administration’s allies who have interests in resource extraction and energy development projects.
It is not news that the current administration is unfriendly to landscape scale conservation. So, it is not surprising that a proposed a Department of Interior (DOI) rule-making has taken another step to discouragie landscape conservation. This time by making it more difficult for the public to nominate historic properties and in particular cultural landscapes to the National Register of Historic Places. The reason for this change is not hard to find. Recognition of the cultural value of landscapes is seen as an impediment to the administration’s allies who have interests in resource extraction and energy development projects.