Landscape Preservation Student Training and Technical Assistance

Project Description: This project will allow the SUNY ESF Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation to provide technical landscape preservation planning assistance to National Park Service Region 1 parks, and to use that assistance to train future park planners and conservationists. This project will support SUNY ESF (Recipient) to maintain its cooperative relationship with the NPS Olmsted Center and support student participation in Olmsted Center work; to support development of digital modeling as a research tool; to manage a summer 2021 internship program; to provide technical assistance to Gettysburg National Military Park for management of its commemorative landscape and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park for management of its historic landscape resources; to respond to parks’ requests for Section 106 review; to scope a project to create a methodology for inventorying landscape resources in the Erie Canalway NHC; to provide technical assistance at other Northeast Region parks where SUNY ESF has done research; and to disseminate findings.

Lead Principal Investigator: John Auwaerter, 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

Project Type: Technical Assistance

Project Discipline: Cultural Resources

Project Sub-Discipline: Cultural and Historic

Start Year: 2020

End Year: 2022

Initial Funding Amount: $80,000.00

Federal Grant Number: P20AC00968

Location: Northeastern national park units

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