Parks Without Borders: Valuing NPS Programs
April 24, 2016
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For more than 20 years, attempts have been made to pass National Heritage Areas program legislation. Will 2014 be the year it finally happens? And what is so important about such an act anyways? Read reflections from a recent hearing on the matter.
In mid-June, the World Heritage Committee met in Doha, Qatar. Several new sites and landscapes were inscribed on the world heritage list, including one in the United States – the country’s first nomination since a loss of voting rights for nonpayment of dues to the committee’s parent organization UNESCO.
When the NPS ran into a paperwork glitch, agency staff responded creatively to gather information on the status of National Historic Landmarks.
According to President Obama, “For decades, the National Heritage Areas Program has enabled our Nation to set aside places that define our shared history and that will help future generations understand what it means to be American.” Find out more about why he recognized this important program on its thirtieth anniversary as part of our #NHA30 coverage.
Not every story to save a nationally significant cultural landscape from imminent sale and development has a happy ending. Often the auction sign goes up, there is a brief period of bewailing the tragedy, then the inevitable happens, and the dozers move in. But this was not what happened in the campaign to save the Junction Earth Works in Chillicothe Ohio. The outcome is a lesson in how strong partnership and new media can be combined to save a landscape.
For more than 20 years, attempts have been made to pass National Heritage Areas program legislation. Will 2014 be the year it finally happens? And what is so important about such an act anyways? Read reflections from a recent hearing on the matter.
In mid-June, the World Heritage Committee met in Doha, Qatar. Several new sites and landscapes were inscribed on the world heritage list, including one in the United States – the country’s first nomination since a loss of voting rights for nonpayment of dues to the committee’s parent organization UNESCO.
When the NPS ran into a paperwork glitch, agency staff responded creatively to gather information on the status of National Historic Landmarks.
According to President Obama, “For decades, the National Heritage Areas Program has enabled our Nation to set aside places that define our shared history and that will help future generations understand what it means to be American.” Find out more about why he recognized this important program on its thirtieth anniversary as part of our #NHA30 coverage.
Not every story to save a nationally significant cultural landscape from imminent sale and development has a happy ending. Often the auction sign goes up, there is a brief period of bewailing the tragedy, then the inevitable happens, and the dozers move in. But this was not what happened in the campaign to save the Junction Earth Works in Chillicothe Ohio. The outcome is a lesson in how strong partnership and new media can be combined to save a landscape.