Cultural Landscape Foundation

Posted by Georgene A. Bramlage Jan 23, 2007

How do you view the landscapes encountered in your daily life?

If you could save one landscape, which would it be? How would you go about doing this?

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

wants to help the public understand American cultural landscapes so that they might be saved for future generations. They aim to do this through education and technical assistance.

What is a Cultural Landscape?

They are, in the words of CLF, geographic areas that include cultural and natural resources associated with an historic event, activity, person, or group of people.

And CLF has arranged the infinite possibilities into four general groups:

• Historic Sites: battlefields or presidential homes;
• Historic Designed Landscapes: parks, campuses, and estates;
• Historic Vernacular Landscapes: rural villages, industrial complexes, and agricultural landscapes;
• Historic Ethnographic Landscapes: contemporary settlements, religious sacred sites and massive geological structures.