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This post , NPS and Anniversaries, first ran in our September 2015 newsletter. We are re-printing it now in an effort to spark conversation not only about the NPS centennial, but also the legacy of the Obama Presidency and National Parks more generally. After almost 8 years, what do you see as the primary imprint of the Administration on the National Park System and other public lands? What will be the long term impacts of the administration’s efforts to protect resources on a landscape scale and tell the history of all Americans? What about the direction of the 2016 Centennial? And most importantly, what will be the emphasis of the next administration?
Interested in the future of the heritage movement? Concerned that the program has had to invest so much of its political capital on re-authorization and just hanging on to a flat line budget? Then the recent legislation establishing the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park might be one way forward – offering stability and just possibly a new kind of partnership to conserve landscape scale resources.
Last December, the Living Landscape Observer ventured a few predictions for the coming year of 2013. So looking backward, how did we do?
Interested in the future of National Heritage Areas or in the bigger issue of partnership management in the National Park Service (NPS)? If so, the
This post , NPS and Anniversaries, first ran in our September 2015 newsletter. We are re-printing it now in an effort to spark conversation not only about the NPS centennial, but also the legacy of the Obama Presidency and National Parks more generally. After almost 8 years, what do you see as the primary imprint of the Administration on the National Park System and other public lands? What will be the long term impacts of the administration’s efforts to protect resources on a landscape scale and tell the history of all Americans? What about the direction of the 2016 Centennial? And most importantly, what will be the emphasis of the next administration?
Interested in the future of the heritage movement? Concerned that the program has had to invest so much of its political capital on re-authorization and just hanging on to a flat line budget? Then the recent legislation establishing the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park might be one way forward – offering stability and just possibly a new kind of partnership to conserve landscape scale resources.
Last December, the Living Landscape Observer ventured a few predictions for the coming year of 2013. So looking backward, how did we do?
Interested in the future of National Heritage Areas or in the bigger issue of partnership management in the National Park Service (NPS)? If so, the