Project Description: This project will allow SUNY ESF to make its more than two decades of cultural landscape research and professional preservation expertise accessible to parks units in the NPS Northeast Region. This will support the training of SUNY ESF students as future landscape preservation professionals through involvement in National Park Service natural and cultural resource management. Students will assist parks in meeting historic preservation/environmental regulations, enhancing interpretation, informing landscape treatment; and completing baseline cultural landscape inventories. Specific objectives of this agreement include providing ongoing Section 106 advising and landscape preservation assistance to national park units where SUNY ESF has completed research, completing components of three draft Cultural Landscape Inventories, and developing a proposal for a cultural landscape preservation field school at Acadia National Park in summer 2018.
Lead Principal Investigator: Mr. John Auwaerter, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator: Prof. George Curry, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Partner Institution: SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Robert Page
Federal Involvement: The PI worked closely with NPS Olmsted Center staff to produce the CLIs for Gettysburg National Cemetery and Chancellorsville Battlefield, for updates to CLIs at Home of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt NHS, and to plan for an unrealized field school at Acadia National Park. The PI also worked with park staff on providing Section 106 advising.
Project Type: Technical Assistance
Project Discipline: Cultural Resources
Project Sub-Discipline(s): Cultural and Historic
Start Year: 2017
End Year: 2019
Initial Funding Amount: $93,000.00
Federal Grant Number: P17AC01514
Location: NPS Northeast Regional Parks
National Park or Protected Area: Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
State(s): New York
New York Counties: Dutchess
Student and Other Involvement:
- Masters Students: 1
- Undergraduate Students: 1
Summary of Student Involvement: The project supported full-time summer internships for Master of Landscape Architecture student Justin Kwiatkowski and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student Vera Angelina to undertake research and field work for updating cultural landscape inventories at the Home of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites.
Summary of Other Involvement: This project supported the PI in providing technical landscape preservation assistance to national parks in the Northeast Region based on prior research projects and on specific assignments for providing Section 106 advising to HOFR, VAMA, FOST, and WORI. The project also supported the transfer of research completed for CLRs at Gettysburg National Cemetery and Chancellorsville Battlefield to the NPS CLAIMs system-Cultural Landscape Inventory.
The original scope proposed a summer field school at Acadia National Park, and the PI worked with the NPS Olmsted Center in initial planning. However, due to capacity issues at the NPS Olmsted Center, the field school was called off. The project instead supported two ESF students for full-time summer internships at Home of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites.
The project also cost-shared the PI’s delivery of a 500-level ESF course that introduced students to historic preservation and cultural landscapes, as part of the project scope to train future landscape preservation practioners.
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