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National Trust for Historic Preservation: A Tale of Two Sessions

Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.

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New Featured Landscape

Be sure to check out the newest featured landscape – Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve. Located on Whidbey Island, Washington State, Ebey’s Landing is a

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Taking on Large Landscape Conservation in the Amazon – Part II

The Amazon Conservation Association, a consortium of Peruvian, Bolivian, and U.S. conservation organizations, is working on an ambitious regional plan to address threats to the forest and human welfare across multiple international borders. Find out more about this work in the second of a two part series on large landscape conservation in the Amazon.

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What Would Lady Bird Do?

Texas! What better place to talk about the next fifty years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This is the home turf of Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who signed the original law back in 1965. LBJ had a strong record of caring for the nation’s natural resources, but it is no secret that he was inspired to do so by one of great conservation figures of the 20th century, his wife Lady Bird Johnson.

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End of Country?

Reflections on a recent visit to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, one of the centers of the natural gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania.

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National Trust for Historic Preservation: A Tale of Two Sessions

Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.

Read More »

New Featured Landscape

Be sure to check out the newest featured landscape – Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve. Located on Whidbey Island, Washington State, Ebey’s Landing is a

Read More »

Taking on Large Landscape Conservation in the Amazon – Part II

The Amazon Conservation Association, a consortium of Peruvian, Bolivian, and U.S. conservation organizations, is working on an ambitious regional plan to address threats to the forest and human welfare across multiple international borders. Find out more about this work in the second of a two part series on large landscape conservation in the Amazon.

Read More »

What Would Lady Bird Do?

Texas! What better place to talk about the next fifty years of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This is the home turf of Lyndon B. Johnson, the president who signed the original law back in 1965. LBJ had a strong record of caring for the nation’s natural resources, but it is no secret that he was inspired to do so by one of great conservation figures of the 20th century, his wife Lady Bird Johnson.

Read More »

End of Country?

Reflections on a recent visit to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, one of the centers of the natural gas drilling industry in Pennsylvania.

Read More »