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April 1, 2020
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How can our 20th century parks and protected areas meet the needs of 21st century users, while surviving ongoing funding challenges at the local, state and federal level.
How do practitioners in the field of cultural landscape balance the at times competing priorities of preservation and conservation? In this guest piece, Paulette Wallace offers an international perspective on the issue, noting that in Australia change and evolution are closely tied to the cultural landscape concept.
Under bright blue skies on a cool spring day on the Green in New Castle, Delaware, an excited group of Delawareans and some Pennsylvanians gathered to celebrate the designation, on March 25, of the First State National Monument by President Obama. Native son, Vice President Biden, Delaware Senator Carper, Interior Secretary Salazar and NPS Director Jarvis clearly were brimming with enthusiasm for the National Monument Proclamation, which brings a National Park Service presence to Delaware for the very first time.
Paul Bray links Franklin D. Roosevelt’s conservation agenda and outlook to our present times with a piece on FDR’s ideas on liberty of the community.
The Amazon Conservation Association, a consortium of Peruvian, Bolivian, and U.S. conservation organizations, is working on an ambitious regional plan to address threats to the forest and human welfare across multiple international borders. Find out more about this work in the second of a two part series on large landscape conservation in the Amazon.
How can our 20th century parks and protected areas meet the needs of 21st century users, while surviving ongoing funding challenges at the local, state and federal level.
How do practitioners in the field of cultural landscape balance the at times competing priorities of preservation and conservation? In this guest piece, Paulette Wallace offers an international perspective on the issue, noting that in Australia change and evolution are closely tied to the cultural landscape concept.
Under bright blue skies on a cool spring day on the Green in New Castle, Delaware, an excited group of Delawareans and some Pennsylvanians gathered to celebrate the designation, on March 25, of the First State National Monument by President Obama. Native son, Vice President Biden, Delaware Senator Carper, Interior Secretary Salazar and NPS Director Jarvis clearly were brimming with enthusiasm for the National Monument Proclamation, which brings a National Park Service presence to Delaware for the very first time.
Paul Bray links Franklin D. Roosevelt’s conservation agenda and outlook to our present times with a piece on FDR’s ideas on liberty of the community.
The Amazon Conservation Association, a consortium of Peruvian, Bolivian, and U.S. conservation organizations, is working on an ambitious regional plan to address threats to the forest and human welfare across multiple international borders. Find out more about this work in the second of a two part series on large landscape conservation in the Amazon.