The Next Four Years: Trends in Landscape Scale Conservation
January 2, 2021
To provide observations and information on the emerging fields of landscape scale conservation, heritage preservation, and sustainable community development.
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The National Park Service Advisory Board released Charting a Future for National Heritage Areas in 2007. What progress has been made on the report’s recommendations over the past sixteen years.
The need for a closer partnership between conservation and historic preservation was one of the motivations for the creation of the Living Landscape Observer (LLO). The LLO reports on large landscape conservation, an approach that blends ingredients of land conservation, historic preservation, and sustainable community development.
In Pennsylvania over 2,500 state historical markers, some dating back over one hundred years, dot the roadside. A recent system wide review of the marker’s text brought controversy, but also a thoughtful analysis of the content of those markers that attempt to interpret Indigenous and African American histories. Timely thoughts as public history agencies struggle to do the right thing.
This year, our most popular stories were a mix of old and new. Readers gained inspiration from posts that reflected on the past, while also reading stories calling for action in the present and future.
History and heritage are central to the work of large landscape conservation. Yet, a large part of this “work” often goes unexplored – the story of work itself. Understanding how people shaped a place through their labor and how that place, in turn, shaped culture and community, is key to telling the story of a landscape.
The National Park Service Advisory Board released Charting a Future for National Heritage Areas in 2007. What progress has been made on the report’s recommendations over the past sixteen years.
The need for a closer partnership between conservation and historic preservation was one of the motivations for the creation of the Living Landscape Observer (LLO). The LLO reports on large landscape conservation, an approach that blends ingredients of land conservation, historic preservation, and sustainable community development.
In Pennsylvania over 2,500 state historical markers, some dating back over one hundred years, dot the roadside. A recent system wide review of the marker’s text brought controversy, but also a thoughtful analysis of the content of those markers that attempt to interpret Indigenous and African American histories. Timely thoughts as public history agencies struggle to do the right thing.
This year, our most popular stories were a mix of old and new. Readers gained inspiration from posts that reflected on the past, while also reading stories calling for action in the present and future.
History and heritage are central to the work of large landscape conservation. Yet, a large part of this “work” often goes unexplored – the story of work itself. Understanding how people shaped a place through their labor and how that place, in turn, shaped culture and community, is key to telling the story of a landscape.