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October 18 - 21, 2018
Columbia, SC
US/ ICOMOS Symposium
November 13, 2018
Presidio
San Francisco, CA
November 14-17, 2018
San Francisco
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Chicago Wilderness Region. Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Chicago Wilderness
The Chicago Wilderness is an alliance of more than 300 organizations dedicated to restoring biodiversity in a metropolitan region that stretches over three states and covers some 1.9 million acres. It is home to more than 10 million residents in one of the most heavily urbanized areas of the United States. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, it is also a center of ecological restoration and green infrastructure, demonstrating the important role cities have to play in meeting 21st century conservation challenges. Learn more about this featured landscape here
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The Network for Landscape Conservation
A Lesson in Nature and Culture
The Coordinating Committee of the Network for Landscape Conservation gathered for a picture on Boneyard Beach, a striking coastal area located on Bull Island in the Cape Romaine National Wildlife Reserve in South Carolina. This field trip kicked off an April retreat in Charleston, where attendees gathered both to finalize the outcomes of the recent National Forum for Landscape Conservation and to identify strategic initiatives to advance conservation at a landscape scale.
Collaborative, cross border conservation is an emerging trend in North America and beyond, offering a new approach to connect and protect nature, culture, and community. The Network was formed to serve as a center for practitioners and to advance expertise on conservation at a landscape scale. The Low Country region is a great example of a conserved landscape with four Federal Wildlife Refuges,
designation as the
Carolinian-South Atlantic Bioshere
Reserve,
and
the ACE Basin Project that manages over 100,000 of protected lands and estuaries. However, it is the living heritage of the region as a center of Gullah Geechee culture that makes it a landscape of global significance.
Read more here.
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Requiem for an Advisory Board
As 2018 began,
a lesser-known but impactful component of America's national park system, the National Park System Advisory Board, drew national media attention when 10 of its 12 members resigned to protest the refusal of the secretary of the interior to meet with them.
Although the board and its activities do not often draw public attention, the mass resignation still "came as a shock," according to the
Los Angeles Times, which went on to
explain that "few groups have been closer and more involved in Interior Department policy and management than the National Park System Advisory Board, an appointed and nonpartisan group established 83 years ago to consult on department operations and practices."
Learn more about the board and the resignation controversy in Rolf Diamant's most recent Letter from Woodstock in the George Wright Journal.
Read here.
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Call for Papers
Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey
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Latest News
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Credit: BLM
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A key element of the growing outdoor recreation economy-which accounts for $887 billion in annual consumer spending and supports 7.6 million jobs,
are small businesses, especially those that operate in the gateway communities around public lands. Read more.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture
Organization
(FAO) has designated 14 sites as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
(GIAHS). These sites will be officially unveiled by the FAO on April 19, 2018. The 14 new sites range from oasis to rice terraces, wasabi cultivation to raisin production. These sites have shaped landscapes, works of art and protected sustainable ways of living and producing food.
With this, there are now a total of 50 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, located in 20 countries.
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About Us
The Living Landscape Observer is a website, blog and monthly e-newsletter that offers commentary and information on the emerging field of large landscape conservation. This approach emphasizes the preservation of a "sense of place" and blends ingredients of land conservation, heritage preservation, and sustainable community development. Learn more about how you can get involved or sign up for the newsletter here. |
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