SUMMARY OF SESSIONS:
Cultural Resource Stewardship
Monday, Sept 11 (10:30 am - 12 Noon)
C-01 -- We are They and They are We: The Dotted Line Between Parks and Communities -- Two Models -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: Local constituents increase our knowledge and expertise, improve our ability to make good management decisions, and inspire new leadership. Two models show how we can protect resources on both sides of the boundary while energizing staff and communities.
C-03r -- Widening the Circle: Cultural Bias in America's Historic Preservation Public Policy -- Will It Still Work in the 21st Century? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: Can 30+ year-old NPS historic preservation policies and practices adequately capture the important material culture of all our citizens, particularly as U.S. demographics and our sense of what is historically significant changes? (Repeated as C-04r)
C-05 -- Preservation Technology: Is 'Mortar Mashing' Our True Mission? Was it Ever? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: What is the National Park Services role (leader, researcher, facilitator, or consumer) in the development of specific historic preservation, material conservation technologies? Can we (should we) be the leaders we were 30 years ago?
C-07 -- Investing in Wisdom -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: How has scholarship shaped the National Park System? Are our decisions based upon adequate and defensible scholarship? Scholarship often doesnt make the jump to interpretation in NPS practice. How do we ensure all this is better folded together?
C-08r -- 'Just the Facts Ma'am': Why is Context So Controversial? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: The preservation and interpretation of the past in public places has become an acrimonious cultural battleground. What is the role of the National Park Service in explaining contentious historic events? (Repeated as C-09r)
C-12 -- Do We Need Knowledge If We Have Technology? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: Has the revolution in education technology and distance learning eliminated the need for interpretive specialists in parks? Do we need interpreters when virtual presentations have higher production values for people with decreasing attention spans?
C-15r -- Evolving the National Park: Mutations in the Management Model -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 64; Summary: The Service must become comfortable and adept with, and accommodating of a broad range of management models for places where we have responsibility but not necessarily ownership. (Repeated as C-16r and C-17r)
C-18r -- Sprawl and Local Conservation: Is it Worth Our Time? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 70; Summary: Can robust, close-to-home preservation, recreation development, and land conservation activities ultimately develop stronger constituencies for national preservation and land and water conservation efforts? (Repeated as C-19r and C-20r)
C-21 -- Experience Your America: The Message Project -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 280; Summary: This session discusses the results of the Message Project and efforts to implement its recommendations across the Service, focusing on the experience of seven "pilot parks" that are receiving intensive project assistance.
C-24a -- Whose Archeology Is It, Anyway? -- (Continues to Session C-24b); Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 141; Summary: As public stewards of archaeological sites, the National Park Service must better address multiple and often conflicting values that all Americans derive from the archaeological record. How should we do this? Are we listening to the right people?
C-29 -- Funds Without Fetters -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 40; Summary: With the potential for a substantial increase in the LWCF and the HPF, this session examines radical and conservative views about distribution and management of the funds. Watch for fireworks.
C-30 -- Should We be a Global Player? Is the World Our Oyster? Should It Be? -- Time: 10:30 am - 12 Noon; Capacity: 50; Summary: World environmental leader or stay-at-home agency? Can we learn and teach on the world scene? The National Park Service has been in and out of international historic preservation efforts. Should we play on the road more?
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