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REGULATIONS, POLICIES, AND GUIDANCE - Cultural Landscapes

Cultural Landscape Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography on Resources in the National Park System. by Katherine Ahern, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1992. Contains a wide variety of reports prepared since 1940, including those devoted solely to a cultural landscape or feature of a landscape, as well as other reports with specific sections addressing landscapes.
Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes. National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services, Washington, DC, 1996. Describes how the use the Secretary's Standards and Guidelines for treatment of cultural landscapes. Contains recommended and not recommended actions for various categories.
"Pamphlets: America's Landscape Legacy and Historic American Engineering Record." National Park Service, Washington, DC. Brief description of cultural landscapes and the Historic American Engineering Record.
Preserving Historic Landscapes: An Annotated Bibliography. National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, Washington DC, 1990.
   

Native American Consultations:

Intermountain Region American Indian Consultation Guidebook and Directory, Intermountain Region-National Park Service, March, 1997. The guidebook is being revised and will only be available on the NPS intranet. No hard copies of the revised guidebook will be distributed. The contact list section of the guidebook is already available at the above intranet site (click on Native American Contact List).

   

National Park Service Manuals:

Cultural Resources Management Guideline (DO-28), Release No. 5. National Park Service, 1997.

Conservation Planning, Environmental Impact Analysis, and Decision Making (DO-12), National Park Service, 2000.

   

Secretary of Interior's Standards

Archeology and Historic Preservation: Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines, 48 Federal Register 44716, September 29, 1983.

Interpreting the Secretary of Interior Standards for Rehabilitation, Volumes I, II, and III. National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, Washington, DC, 1985. Bulletins were initiated in April 1980 to explain rehabilitation project decisions made by NPS. Rather than describe every aspect of overall rehabilitation in great detail, the bulletins focus on specific issues (alterations to store fronts, through-the-wall air conditioners, interior alterations) that posed problems in the review process.

Secretary of Interior Standards and Guidelines for Architectural and Engineering Documentation: HABS/HAER Standards. National Park Service, Cultural Resources Program, Washington, DC, 1990. Describes products acceptable for inclusion in HABS/HAER collections within the Library of Congress.

The Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, 1992. Describes standards and gives recommended and not recommended treatment methods.

The Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Illustrated Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. W. Brown Morton III, Gary L. Hume, Kay D. Weeks, H. Ward Jandl. National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, 1992. Shows specific examples of appropriate treatments as well as consequences of inappropriate treatments.

The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, 1995. National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance, 1992. Summary of standards and treatment.

The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes, National Park Service, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, Heritage Preservation Services, 1996. Shows specific examples of appropriate treatments as well as consequences of inappropriate treatments.

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