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Caption: In 2000, the Historic American Landscape Survey was formally established as a federal program to identify significant and threatened landscapes. Identifying landscapes, which are often unnoticed, is crucial to making them visible, and thus preservable. Image: Excerpt paragraph from the Historic American Landscape Survey brochure. Paragraph is titled “Why should we care about historic landscapes?” Text reads “Historic landscapes are typically ‘invisible’ to both the public and policy makers. Hence, like many historic properties. America’s historic landscapes are subject to loss and change through inappropriate use, development, vandalism, and natural forces such as flooding. When historic landscapes are publicly identified as significant, unique resources, they become ‘visible’ and can be incorporated into local, state, and federal planning and recording processes. Documentation of historic landscapes through research, photography and drawings is crucial to their preservation. We must act now..."

"In 2000, the Historic American Landscape Survey was formally established as a federal program to identify significant and threatened landscapes. Identifying landscapes, which are often unnoticed, is crucial to making them visible, and thus preservable." Image with text from the Historic American Landscape Survey brochure.

These images were prepared as part of a series focusing on cultural landscape reports and historic structure reports, highlighting examples and illustrating how the reports relate to preservation history in the National Park System.

• Keywords: cultural landscape