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Maritime Washington National Heritage Area

The recently designated Maritime Washington National Heritage Area (NHA) is an exciting addition to the NHA program. Its boundaries are the saltwater coastlines of 14 counties in Washington State or roughly 3,000 miles of shoreline .25 mile from the mean high water mark. What opportunities and challenges are present in an effort so clearly focused on water and maritime landscapes?

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Landscape Management: More than just Words

For many good reasons such as climate change resilience, wild life corridor management, and cultural connectivity working on a landscape scale is something the Living Landscape Observer supports. However, many questions have been raised about Secretary Zinke 2018 announcement that the Department of the Interior (DOI) would be managed as 12 Unified Regions to enable bureaus within DOI to conduct business more effectively and efficiently.

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Maritime Washington National Heritage Area

The recently designated Maritime Washington National Heritage Area (NHA) is an exciting addition to the NHA program. Its boundaries are the saltwater coastlines of 14 counties in Washington State or roughly 3,000 miles of shoreline .25 mile from the mean high water mark. What opportunities and challenges are present in an effort so clearly focused on water and maritime landscapes?

Read More »

Landscape Management: More than just Words

For many good reasons such as climate change resilience, wild life corridor management, and cultural connectivity working on a landscape scale is something the Living Landscape Observer supports. However, many questions have been raised about Secretary Zinke 2018 announcement that the Department of the Interior (DOI) would be managed as 12 Unified Regions to enable bureaus within DOI to conduct business more effectively and efficiently.

Read More »