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Réf.
43086
Type
conference item
Titre
A History of Successful Advocacy for the Golden Gate
Langues
English
Auteurs
Meyer, Amy W.
Maison d'édition
ICOMOS United States
Date
2019
Pages
12 p.
Titre de conférence
2018 US/ICOMOS Symposium "Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in a Changing World"2018 US/ICOMOS Symposium - Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in a Changing World
Lieu de conférence
San Francisco, United States
Date de conférence
November 13-14, 201813-14 November 2018
Mots-clés
natural landscapes / conservation of cultural landscapes / natural heritage / cultural heritage / national parks / protection of cultural landscapes / legal framework / legal protection / methodology / cultural landscapes / management / historic landscapes / land use plans / culture and nature / mixed properties
Pays mentionnés
United States
Monuments et sites
San Francisco Bay, USA / National Park Service, USA
Résumé en anglais
PART 1. ADOPTING A LANDSCAPE APPROACH - Taking a Landscape Approach to Integrating Nature and Culture ///
When I came from New York City to San Francisco in 1955, I had never seen a place so beautiful. This compact city, sparkling between the ocean and the bay, was surrounded by broadtracts of open land, north and south of the Golden Gate, a strait between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge. In 1970, when I sought a communityproject to balance my psychiatrist husband’s introspective outlook, I met people who wanted to create a national park on the Golden Gate. I was happy to become an advocate for what turned out to be the largest land use conversion in the Bay Area. It is now the 82,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).
This paper recounts many of the stories of the successful advocacy campaigns that saved the grandeur of the Golden Gate as a national park. Others had tried before 1970 to permanentlyprotect the Golden Gate. When former Sierra Club president Dr. Edgar Wayburn and his neighbor, photographer Ansel Adams, tried to bring the lands at the Golden Gate to the attention of the National Park Service (NPS) in the 1960s, NPS representatives instead asked for their help with the authorization of Point Reyes National Seashore to the north. That campaign was successful in 1962.
When I came from New York City to San Francisco in 1955, I had never seen a place so beautiful. This compact city, sparkling between the ocean and the bay, was surrounded by broadtracts of open land, north and south of the Golden Gate, a strait between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge. In 1970, when I sought a communityproject to balance my psychiatrist husband’s introspective outlook, I met people who wanted to create a national park on the Golden Gate. I was happy to become an advocate for what turned out to be the largest land use conversion in the Bay Area. It is now the 82,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).
This paper recounts many of the stories of the successful advocacy campaigns that saved the grandeur of the Golden Gate as a national park. Others had tried before 1970 to permanentlyprotect the Golden Gate. When former Sierra Club president Dr. Edgar Wayburn and his neighbor, photographer Ansel Adams, tried to bring the lands at the Golden Gate to the attention of the National Park Service (NPS) in the 1960s, NPS representatives instead asked for their help with the authorization of Point Reyes National Seashore to the north. That campaign was successful in 1962.
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