By Priya Chhaya and Pam Bowman The Great American Outdoors Act is now law. For many years, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in collaboration with our local, state, and national partners have successfully made the case that establishing a dedicated fund for National Park Service ...
Table of Contents * Marketing the Preservation Message by Gerald L. Baliles * Rallying Support for Resources from the Recent Past by Jeanne Lambin and Adrian Scott Fine * The Oversimplification of Gentrification by Donovan D. Rypkema * Issue-Based Preservation: The Prairie Churches of...
FJ_Summer_04.pdf
On May 5 Congress completed its work on the H.R.244 —the FY17 Consolidated Appropriations Act—known as the “Omnibus.” The Omnibus will fund the government through September 30, 2017, and includes 11 appropriations bills, as well as supplemental funding for defense, disaster relief, border...
Update: Congress Cuts Public Out of Early Input on Public Lands On March 7, the Senate voted 51-48 to nullify the BLM Planning 2.0 rule, which updated the decades-old planning process for our public lands, gave the public greater input, and improved the outlook for countless cultural...
In May 2006, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released a new study on the Bureau of Land Management, "Cultural Resources on the Bureau of Land Management Public Lands: An Assessment and Needs Analysis". The BLM manages over 261 million acres of federal land, primarily in the eleven...
NTHP-BLM-Report.pdf
[UPDATE] Final Comments have been added below (3/6/2017) Check additional resources below for some recent threats to the Planning Rule. The BLM is now revising the Draft Planning Rule that establishes the process for developing, revising, or amending its Resource Management Plans. BLM...
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With contributions from Tom Cassidy, vice president for Government Relations and Adam Jones, associate director for Government Relations and Policy. Every quarter we’ll bring you the latest information related to historic preservation and public policy. In this dispatch we have an ...
February 16, 2008, marked the 25th anniversary of the Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon, a challenging competition in which several hundred participants run, bike, cross country ski, and snowshoe 42 miles to the top of the highest peak in the Cibola National Forest and back. For many Americans, the...
If there were a patron saint of archeologists, I suspect it would be Saint Theodore, as in Roosevelt, the bull-headed conservative who during his White House tenure from 1901 to1908 redefined the public’s perception of conservation to actually mean conserving resources on public lands. In...
Many Americans assume that most of our nation’s important cultural resources are part of the National Park System. Most of them also assume that these places are fully protected and well cared-for. They’re wrong on both counts. Right now, while summer vacation season is in full...