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More than 20 years ago, as rapid development spread into Oregon’s fertile Willamette Valley and along its rugged coast, a grassroots organization calling itself 1000 Friends of Oregon propelled the growth management movement in Oregon to a new level of influence. It helped to ensure that...
Each year preservationists struggle to defend the federal historic preservation program which since 1966 has given Americans the means to protect and restore tens of thousands of historic resources nationwide. In spite of more than three decades of progress, it remains a program perennially...
America`s National Parks embrace the full breadth of the American heritage, both the natural and the man-made. Since the creation of Mesa Verde National Park in 1906 to "[preserve] from injury and spoilation (sic) the ruins and other works of prehistoric man," Congress has designated 216 of the...
S peaking at the Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference, held November 10-12 in New Orleans, National Trust President Richard Moe emphasized the preservation principles that should guide hurricane recovery efforts in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Here is a portion of his...
Preservation is not a very contemplative movement. Demolition, after all, is the ultimate deadline. There never seems to be time to think about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we want to go. Our horizon is the next public hearing or the latest threatened building. Have we been so busy...
Last spring, fifth graders at E. Rivers Elementary School in the Peachtree Battle Avenue historic district of Atlanta learned to look at--and think about--their environment in new ways thanks to an innovative collaboration between the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the nation`s...
From the motivation at the summit, my ideas about historic preservation have grown and I wish to pass these ideas on to my community, perhaps through my own preservation project.” “It has really opened my eyes to see that these old historic building serve as more than just...
In response to the devastating events of September 11, 2001, five historic preservation groups—the World Monuments Fund, the National Trust, the Preservation League of New York State, the Municipal Art Society, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy— joined together to form the Lower...