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Cultural landscape report for Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, California : site history, existing conditions, analysis and evaluation, treatment / by John Auwaerter, Haichao Wang, George W. Curry.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Auwaerter, John E. (John Eric), 1964- author.
- Wang, Haichao, 1989- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muir Woods National Monument (Calif.).
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--California--Muir Woods National Monument.
- Historic sites.
- Cultural landscapes--California--Muir Woods National Monument.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Natural history--California--Muir Woods National Monument.
- Natural history.
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration.
- California--Muir Woods National Monument.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Cultural Landscape Report for Muir Woods National Monument provides documentation for understanding, interpreting, and managing the built landscape of the National Register-listed park. It contains a history of the development of the monument landscape based on the previously published Historic Resource Study for Muir Woods National Monument; documentation of existing conditions; and analysis and evaluation of the landscape's historic significance; and treatment recommendations that adddresses preservation of the cultural landscape. The report is amply illustrated with historic and existing photographs, and contains 15 illustrated maps depicting the landscape at different points in history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Project scope and methods
- Summary of findings
- Site history
- Native environment and the rancho era, to 1883
- Park origins in Redwood Canyon, 1883-1907
- Monument designation and the Kent-Railway era, 1907-1928
- The State Park-CCC era, 1928-1953
- MISSION 66 and the environmental era, 1953-present
- Existing conditions
- Park operations
- Landscape setting
- Muir Woods National Monument landscape
- Landscape condition
- Analysis and evaluation
- National Register evaluation
- Cultural landscape evaluation
- Table 3.1: Historic district landscape features inventory
- Table 3.2: Non-historic tracts landscape features inventory
- Treatment recommendations
- Treatment framework
- Treatment guidelines and planning considerations
- Appendices
- A. Letter, William Thomas to John Muir, November 18, 1905 (naming of Muir Woods)
- B. Cultural landscape and use changes, 2015-2020
- C. Landscape treatment decision-making matrix.
- Notes:
- Shipping list no.: 2021-0244-P.
- This report was prepared under the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Task Agreement P13AC00564, Cooperative Agreement H4503090700, between the National Park Service and the University of Rhode Island.
- National Park Service, Integrated Resource Management (IRMA) Report #2284285.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781733306911
- 1733306919
- OCLC:
- 1250429154
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