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Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.
Texas! What better place to talk about the next fifty years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This is the home turf of Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who signed the original law back in 1965. LBJ had a strong record of caring for the nation’s natural resources, but it is no secret that he was inspired to do so by one of great conservation figures of the 20th century, his wife Lady Bird Johnson.
Reflections on a recent visit to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, one of the centers of the natural gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania.
Talk about a cliffhanger! As of now, it looks like the funding for 12 of the 49 National Heritage Areas may be going over the edge as Congress so far has failed to act on any re-authorization bills. So – what happens next?
In these tough financial times, state and federal governments are all scrambling to balance their budgets. This has placed environmental and natural resource programs at
Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.
Texas! What better place to talk about the next fifty years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This is the home turf of Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who signed the original law back in 1965. LBJ had a strong record of caring for the nation’s natural resources, but it is no secret that he was inspired to do so by one of great conservation figures of the 20th century, his wife Lady Bird Johnson.
Reflections on a recent visit to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, one of the centers of the natural gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania.
Talk about a cliffhanger! As of now, it looks like the funding for 12 of the 49 National Heritage Areas may be going over the edge as Congress so far has failed to act on any re-authorization bills. So – what happens next?
In these tough financial times, state and federal governments are all scrambling to balance their budgets. This has placed environmental and natural resource programs at