ASLA Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network

Links

Historic Preservation

Historic American Landscapes Survey
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/hals/
The Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) is a permanent federal program charged with recording historic landscapes in the United States and its territories. Historic landscapes vary in size from small gardens to several thousand-acre national parks. In character they range from designed to vernacular, rural to urban, and agricultural to industrial spaces. Vegetable patches, estate gardens, cemeteries, farms, quarries, nuclear test sites, suburbs, and abandoned settlements all may be considered historic landscapes. Like its sister programs, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), HALS produces written and graphic records of interest to educators, land managers, and preservation planners.

National Park Service Hist. Landscape Initiative
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hli/
The National Park Service (NPS) Historic Landscape Initiative promotes responsible preservation practices that protect our nation's irreplaceable legacy--designed landscapes such as parks and gardens, as well as vernacular historic landscapes such as farms and industrial sites.

Advisory Council On Historic Preservation
http://www.achp.gov/
The mission of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is to promote the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of our Nation's historic resources, and advise the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy.

Historic American Engineering Record
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/haer/index.htm
As the oldest Federal preservation program, the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) produces graphic and written documentation of historically significant architectural, engineering and industrial sites and structures.

National Park Svc. Olmsted Center for Landscape
http://www.nps.gov/frla/oclp.htm

Natl. Assoc. of Tribal Hist. Preservation Officers
http://www.nathpo.org/
Tribal Historic Preservation Officers are officially designated by a federally-recognized Indian tribe to direct a program approved by the National Park Service and the THPO must have assumed some or all of the functions of State Historic Preservation Officers on Tribal lands.

Natl. Conference of State Hist. Preserv. Officers
http://www.ncshpo.org/
The National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers is the professional association of the State government officials who carry out the national historic preservation program as delegates of the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.

National Preservation Institute
http://www.npi.org/
The National Preservation Institute (NPI) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization offering specialized information, continuing education, and professional training to those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of our cultural heritage.

Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
http://www.ahlp.org/

Historic American Buildings Survey
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/habs/index.htm
America's historic buildings serve as tangible evidence of our nation's past, reflecting an architectural heritage as diverse as our ethnic and cultural backgrounds. From the hand-hewn, timber-frame Saltboxes of the colonial period to the steel-beam constructed office towers that dominate today's urban skylines, the architectural forms of each era are built on those of the past, with every successive development constituting a vital link in the progression. It is the mission of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) to properly record these structures in order to better understand what they tell us of the past, and to insure their recognition by future generations.

Trust For Public Land
http://www.tpl.org/
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.

Association of Preservation Technology
http://www.apti.org/

National Landscape Consevation Service
http://www.discovernlcs.org/
In June 2000, the National Landscape Conservation System - the most innovative American land system created in the last 50 years - was established to encompass the crown jewels of the public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This new conservation system consists of more than 26 million acres: National Monuments, National Conservation Areas, Wilderness, Wilderness Study Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National and Scenic Trails.

Cultural Landscapes

Cultural Landscape Currents: NPS HLI
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/hli/currents/

The Cultural Landscape Foundation
http://www.tclf.org/

Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies
http://www.icls.harvard.edu/

Gardens

The Garden Conservancy
http://www.gardenconservancy.org

Southern Garden History Society
http://www.southerngardenhistory.org/

Dumbarton Oaks
http://www.doaks.org/

The Garden Club of America
http://www.gcamerica.org/

Garden History Links
http://www.magma.ca/%7Eevb/garden.html

The New England Garden History Society
http://www.masshort.org/neghs.htm

American Association of Botanical Gardens
http://www.aabga.org/

Landscape Architecture

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
http://www.csla.ca/

IFLA
http://www.ifla.net/

Heritage Resources

World Heritage Convention
http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/doc/main.htm

National Park Svc. Historic Landscape Initiative
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/hli/

Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation
http://www.cr.nps.gov/ncptt/irg

World Commission on Protected Areas
wcpa.iucn.org/theme/landscapes/landscapes.html

The National Trust (UK)
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/

Preserve and Protect, Inc.
http://www.preserve.org/

Canadian Assoc. of Prof. Heritage Consultants
http://www.caphc.ca/

ICOMOS
http://www.icomos.org/

National Trust For Historic Preservation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/
The National Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.

Research

Library of American Landscape History
www.lalh.org

Wave Hill
http://www.wavehill.org/landscape.html

The Centre for Landscape Research
http://www.clr.utoronto.ca/