The Opportunity of a Lifetime for Landscape Scale Conservation
November 23, 2021
To provide observations and information on the emerging fields of landscape scale conservation, heritage preservation, and sustainable community development.
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At the recent National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation, attendees took time to celebrate the anniversaries of two ground-breaking large landscape projects – National Heritage Areas and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
In partnership with the National Park Service, National Heritage Areas across the country launched a one week media campaign blitz from August 24-30, 2014 using
The conservation movement has embraced the idea of preserving large landscapes as the only way to provide the necessary resilience and protection for the world’s ecosystems challenged by climate change and the impacts of global development. But how large a landscape is large enough?
Do you know an undergraduate or graduate student interested in historic preservation, planning, history, public policy, law, architecture or a related field? If so, encourage them to apply to the Preservation Action Advocacy Scholars program, which offers a limited number of competitive scholarships to students interested in attending National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week (March 2-4, 2015) in Washington, D.C. This year Preservation Action has joined the NHA@30 celebration by proposing the National Heritage Areas program as topic for the required advocacy scholar’s essay.
“To me, a cultural landscape is a visually harmonious and fundamentally sustainable landscape that emerges out of the fusion of natural and anthropogenic activities.” – Duncan Hilchey, from interview with the Cultural Landscape Foundation
At the recent National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation, attendees took time to celebrate the anniversaries of two ground-breaking large landscape projects – National Heritage Areas and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
In partnership with the National Park Service, National Heritage Areas across the country launched a one week media campaign blitz from August 24-30, 2014 using
The conservation movement has embraced the idea of preserving large landscapes as the only way to provide the necessary resilience and protection for the world’s ecosystems challenged by climate change and the impacts of global development. But how large a landscape is large enough?
Do you know an undergraduate or graduate student interested in historic preservation, planning, history, public policy, law, architecture or a related field? If so, encourage them to apply to the Preservation Action Advocacy Scholars program, which offers a limited number of competitive scholarships to students interested in attending National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week (March 2-4, 2015) in Washington, D.C. This year Preservation Action has joined the NHA@30 celebration by proposing the National Heritage Areas program as topic for the required advocacy scholar’s essay.
“To me, a cultural landscape is a visually harmonious and fundamentally sustainable landscape that emerges out of the fusion of natural and anthropogenic activities.” – Duncan Hilchey, from interview with the Cultural Landscape Foundation