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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In rural Northwest Pennsylvania, an effort is underway to link together conservation, recreation and local business development under the auspices of the state’s Conservation Landscapes Initiative (CLI). What do these complex partnerships look like in practice and what can one community reveal about how a CLI functions?
New York’s heritage areas are “partnership parks” encompassing public and private interests as well as partnership between state and local government. The first such effort, RiverSpark, dates to 1977, eight years before the federal National Heritage Areas program began to take shape. In recent years, however, the New York effort has suffered from a lack of funding and staff support.
Published in 1990, National Register Bulletin 38 provides guidelines for the evaluation and documentation of Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP). In this post, one of the bulletin’s authors, Tom King, addresses shortcomings in a recent report that sought to apply the TCP concept to the Gladesmen, longtime residents of the Florida Everglades.
Rising seas, floods, and wildfires are threatening the United States’ most cherished historic sites.
For more than 20 years, attempts have been made to pass National Heritage Areas program legislation. Will 2014 be the year it finally happens? And what is so important about such an act anyways? Read reflections from a recent hearing on the matter.
In rural Northwest Pennsylvania, an effort is underway to link together conservation, recreation and local business development under the auspices of the state’s Conservation Landscapes Initiative (CLI). What do these complex partnerships look like in practice and what can one community reveal about how a CLI functions?
New York’s heritage areas are “partnership parks” encompassing public and private interests as well as partnership between state and local government. The first such effort, RiverSpark, dates to 1977, eight years before the federal National Heritage Areas program began to take shape. In recent years, however, the New York effort has suffered from a lack of funding and staff support.
Published in 1990, National Register Bulletin 38 provides guidelines for the evaluation and documentation of Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP). In this post, one of the bulletin’s authors, Tom King, addresses shortcomings in a recent report that sought to apply the TCP concept to the Gladesmen, longtime residents of the Florida Everglades.
Rising seas, floods, and wildfires are threatening the United States’ most cherished historic sites.
For more than 20 years, attempts have been made to pass National Heritage Areas program legislation. Will 2014 be the year it finally happens? And what is so important about such an act anyways? Read reflections from a recent hearing on the matter.