RT Conference Proceedings
SR 00
A1 Brooks, Allyson
T1 Challenging the Nature and Culture of Ourselves: Managing the English Lake District as a Global Property
YR 2019
FD November 13-14, 2018
SP 1
OP 12
K1 Cultural landscapes
K1 nature culture integration
K1 natural landscapes
K1 conservation of cultural landscapes
K1 natural heritage
K1 cultural heritage
K1 cultural significance
K1 national listing
K1 criteria
K1 local communities
K1 indigenous people
K1 values
K1 evaluation
K1 methodology
K1 presentation
K1 USA
AB PART 1. ADOPTING A LANDSCAPE APPROACH -   Taking a Landscape Approach to Integrating Nature and Culture ///     The American West is filled with beautiful, vast, environmentally diverse landscapes. While  most Americans consider these to be natural landscapes, in reality, for many indigenous tribes, these are also cultural landscapes that hold their sacred places, points of origin, and traditional use and subsistence areas. These places are evaluated for their significance through the criteria  established for the National Register of Historic Places, which is a Euro-American lens. However, this evaluation criterion does not mesh well with large indigenous landscapes that may or may not contain archaeological sites and/or features. Washington State has listed natural  features on the National Register of Historic Places such as Snoqualmie Falls, Mt. St. Helens and Tamanowas Rock. However, with the current Administration’s emphasis on economic development and resource extraction the concept of landscapes as historic properties has come under intensified scrutiny. The potential listing of Chu’it’nu in Alaska, which is described as a 153 square mile living traditional cultural landscape, has the Administration questioning the  validity of traditional cultural places as historic properties. This paper looks at the current state of cultural landscapes in the American West, explores enhanced methods of evaluating the significance of landscape level properties and approaches for protecting these types of resources.
T2 2018 US/ICOMOS Symposium "Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in a Changing World"
ED San Francisco, California
AV Published
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2294/
UL https://usicomos.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Brooks-2019-US-ICOMOS-Proceedings.pdf