Votre ressource mondiale sur le patrimoine
EN
ES
FR
Réf.
43085
Type
conference item
Titre
Re-envisioning the Cultural Landscape Report:Straddling the Nature/Culture Divide at Pecos National Historical Park
Langues
English
Auteurs
Melnick, Robert Z.
Maison d'édition
ICOMOS United States
Date
2019
Pagination de section
1-12
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 / cultural significance / national parks / criteria / local communities / interdisciplinarity / historians / archaeologists / heritage professionals / values / methodology / cultural landscapes / management / legal protection / interpretation / culture and nature / ecology / evaluations / mixed properties
Pays mentionnés
United States
Monuments et sites
Pecos National Historical Park, USA / National Park Service, USA
Résumé en anglais
PART 1. ADOPTING A LANDSCAPE APPROACH - Taking a Landscape Approach to Integrating Nature and Culture ///
As professionals advance the conservation of natural and cultural resources, they often seem to be living in different worlds. Ecologists may pay homage to a landscape’s human history, viewing that history as an ‘invasive species’ interrupting a landscape’s naturalsystems. Landscape historians may envision the natural systems as a blank canvas upon which the human hand has fashioned a place of beauty, function, and delight. Each of these perspectives – presented in the extreme – leaves a hazy understanding of a landscape’s complexity and true resilience. In the United States, this circumstance, has been nurtured by federal agencies, especially the National Park Service, that built and maintained a wall between the programs, funding and professionals in natural and cultural resources. This results in a myopic view of a landscape’s meaning, value, and needs. Research, planning and stewardship priorities have often favored one side of that border over the other. The result, too often, is the sound of one hand cla
pping.An innovative approach to this problem is being developed through an on-going Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) project at Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico. The
project team of cultural landscape historians, ecologists, archeologists, and others meets regularly to share professional insights with an emphasis on human history, ecological knowledge and vegetation management. It is a test case for a new vision for a CLR, being developed by partners who listen and learn from each other and work together to create a process and ‘landscape dictionary’ that facilitates crossing the professional and linguistic divide.
As professionals advance the conservation of natural and cultural resources, they often seem to be living in different worlds. Ecologists may pay homage to a landscape’s human history, viewing that history as an ‘invasive species’ interrupting a landscape’s naturalsystems. Landscape historians may envision the natural systems as a blank canvas upon which the human hand has fashioned a place of beauty, function, and delight. Each of these perspectives – presented in the extreme – leaves a hazy understanding of a landscape’s complexity and true resilience. In the United States, this circumstance, has been nurtured by federal agencies, especially the National Park Service, that built and maintained a wall between the programs, funding and professionals in natural and cultural resources. This results in a myopic view of a landscape’s meaning, value, and needs. Research, planning and stewardship priorities have often favored one side of that border over the other. The result, too often, is the sound of one hand cla
pping.An innovative approach to this problem is being developed through an on-going Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) project at Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico. The
project team of cultural landscape historians, ecologists, archeologists, and others meets regularly to share professional insights with an emphasis on human history, ecological knowledge and vegetation management. It is a test case for a new vision for a CLR, being developed by partners who listen and learn from each other and work together to create a process and ‘landscape dictionary’ that facilitates crossing the professional and linguistic divide.
Document joint
Melnick-2019-US-ICOMOS-Proceedings.pdfLicence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
ICOMOS International Secretariat - 11 rue du Séminaire de Conflans
94220 Charenton-le-Pont, France
Tel. +33 (0) 1 41 94 17 59
E-mail : secretariat@icomos.org
Pour toute demande presse & média, contacter : communication@icomos.org
