Recipient Organization
STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK
(N/A)
SYRACUSE,NY 13210
Performing Department
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Non Technical Summary
The history of many cultural landscapes in the National Park Service is poorly documented, and management has not been developed to assure long-term preservation of significant landscape characteristics; there is a need for practical experience among landscape architecture students in preservation planning; and new and innovative methods of cultural landscape preservation planning are needed within the National Park Service and elsewhere in the private and public sectors. This project will produce detailed planning documents to assure the long-term preservation and interpretation of certain cultural landscapes in the National Park System; it will help train landscape architecture students in the methods of cultural landscape preservation planning; and it will produce new and innovative approaches that can be applied to other projects both within and outside of the National Park System.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
100%
Applied
(N/A)
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
This project consists of thirteen task agreements with the National Park Service (NPS) to complete Cultural Landscape Reports (CLR), Cultural Landscape Inventories (CLI) and Historic Resource Studies (HRS); to assist in the development of General Management Plans (GMP); and to provide technical landscape assistance to support long-term planning, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historically significant cultural landscapes within the National Park System. Current work is located at Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, Gateway National Recreation Area, Petersburg National Battlefield, Shenandoah National Park, and Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Aside from preparing reports, the objectives of this project include: providing landscape architecture students access to National Park Service cultural landscape programs, methodologies, and purposes; and to develop new and innovative approaches to preservation planning and technical treatment of
cultural landscapes in the NPS.
Project Methods
Undertake documentary research, assess landscape conditions, develop landscape inventory methodologies, and produce graphic and narrative documentation; collaborate with NPS landscape architects, historians, planners, superintendents, curators, and natural resource managers.