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How do practitioners in the field of cultural landscape balance the at times competing priorities of preservation and conservation? In this guest piece, Paulette Wallace offers an international perspective on the issue, noting that in Australia change and evolution are closely tied to the cultural landscape concept.
Under bright blue skies on a cool spring day on the Green in New Castle, Delaware, an excited group of Delawareans and some Pennsylvanians gathered to celebrate the designation, on March 25, of the First State National Monument by President Obama. Native son, Vice President Biden, Delaware Senator Carper, Interior Secretary Salazar and NPS Director Jarvis clearly were brimming with enthusiasm for the National Monument Proclamation, which brings a National Park Service presence to Delaware for the very first time.
Just when you think things cannot get any more dire for the National Heritage Areas,Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment to the recent budget continuing resolution to strip away half of the funding for the program ($8.1 Million). Learn more about what happened.
On March 25, President Obama designated 5 new national monuments, including four at a landscape scape. Learn more about these varied places, which includes sites in Delaware, Washington State, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico.
An overview of the recent George Wright Society Conference in Denver with an emphasis on cultural landscapes and a short video feature on Indigenous Cultural Landscapes in the Chesapeake. Click through to learn more and watch.
How do practitioners in the field of cultural landscape balance the at times competing priorities of preservation and conservation? In this guest piece, Paulette Wallace offers an international perspective on the issue, noting that in Australia change and evolution are closely tied to the cultural landscape concept.
Under bright blue skies on a cool spring day on the Green in New Castle, Delaware, an excited group of Delawareans and some Pennsylvanians gathered to celebrate the designation, on March 25, of the First State National Monument by President Obama. Native son, Vice President Biden, Delaware Senator Carper, Interior Secretary Salazar and NPS Director Jarvis clearly were brimming with enthusiasm for the National Monument Proclamation, which brings a National Park Service presence to Delaware for the very first time.
Just when you think things cannot get any more dire for the National Heritage Areas,Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment to the recent budget continuing resolution to strip away half of the funding for the program ($8.1 Million). Learn more about what happened.
On March 25, President Obama designated 5 new national monuments, including four at a landscape scape. Learn more about these varied places, which includes sites in Delaware, Washington State, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico.
An overview of the recent George Wright Society Conference in Denver with an emphasis on cultural landscapes and a short video feature on Indigenous Cultural Landscapes in the Chesapeake. Click through to learn more and watch.