Potemkin Parks and the Future of Public Lands
July 27, 2025
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The numbers are staggering. Over the last 6-months, the nation’s public land agencies have lost thousands of employees, ranging from brand new hires to senior executives. Leadership is being judged primarily on keeping the doors to sites open, with little consideration given to the long term impacts of staff departures.
Join us for a discussion on the past, present, and future of protest and performance in Washington DC’s national parks
Upcoming virtual event series highlights how historians are using newly digitized materials and emerging digital methods to re-examine the era of the American Revolution.
The most recent edition of the Parks Stewardship Forum (PSF), entitled “Politics, Practice, and the Management of Living Landscapes,” was guest-edited by Brenda Barrett and Eleanor Mahoney from the Living Landscape Observer. This issue examines the conservation of living landscapes at sites worldwide.
What are the best ways to identify and conserve rural landscapes? Since 2012, participants at a series of international meetings have sought to answer this complex question, in part through the development of a new set of shared general principles.
The numbers are staggering. Over the last 6-months, the nation’s public land agencies have lost thousands of employees, ranging from brand new hires to senior executives. Leadership is being judged primarily on keeping the doors to sites open, with little consideration given to the long term impacts of staff departures.
Join us for a discussion on the past, present, and future of protest and performance in Washington DC’s national parks
Upcoming virtual event series highlights how historians are using newly digitized materials and emerging digital methods to re-examine the era of the American Revolution.
The most recent edition of the Parks Stewardship Forum (PSF), entitled “Politics, Practice, and the Management of Living Landscapes,” was guest-edited by Brenda Barrett and Eleanor Mahoney from the Living Landscape Observer. This issue examines the conservation of living landscapes at sites worldwide.
What are the best ways to identify and conserve rural landscapes? Since 2012, participants at a series of international meetings have sought to answer this complex question, in part through the development of a new set of shared general principles.