SUMMARY OF SESSIONS:
Cultural Resource Stewardship
Monday, Sept 11 (1:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
C-02a -- Authenticity: Real -- or 'So What?' -- (Continues to Session C-02b); Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 276; Summary: The NPS prides itself on authenticity, but is authenticity all it is cracked up to be? Can a reproduction or an interpretation be just as (or even more) appealing to the public? Are we overly concerned about the wrong thing?
C-04r -- Widening the Circle: Cultural Bias in America's Historic Preservation Public Policy -- Will It Still Work in the 21st Century? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 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-03r)
C-06a -- 'But It Only Seems Like Yesterday!' Is the National Park Service Providing the Right Leadership in Preserving the Recent Past? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 40; Summary: NPS managers and CRM professionals are faced with evaluating and preserving properties outside the realm of what we have traditionally considered to be "historic." How do we identify and preserve the best and most meaningful remnants of the new past?
C-09r -- 'Just the Facts Ma'am': Why is Context So Controversial? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 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-08r)
C-10r -- Natural/Cultural -- Nature/Human History: Is It All One? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 280; Summary: Explore various management decisions and philosophies on what has become two separate tracks of resource management -- natural and cultural -- and how we might better manage all resources by converging the two. (Repeated as C-11r)
C-13 -- Small Parks with Big Ideas: Helping Underserved Communities 'Own' Their Own Culture -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 70; Summary: Small parks in the Intermountain Region have reached out to diverse community-based groups in Denver by sponsoring "culture campers." Can this model be replicated elsewhere?
C-16r -- Evolving the National Park: Mutations in the Management Model -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 72; 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-15r and C-17r)
C-19r -- Sprawl and Local Conservation: Is it Worth Our Time? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 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-18r and C-20r)
C-22 -- Irreconcilable or Co-Equal? Memory and History at Historic Sites -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 36; Summary: Commemoration and memory are powerful, popular, and unseen forces for preservation, yet they are often dismissed in favor of what we tout as sound professional practice. What is the balance, or is there one?
C-24b -- Whose Archeology Is It, Anyway? -- (Continues to Session C-24c); (Continued from Session C-24a); Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; 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-25r -- DNA Technology -- Curse, or Blessing? -- Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm; Capacity: 147; Summary: Led by an ethicist, this session explores the complexities of the issues surrounding human DNA research, particularly as it affects ancient human remains in the United States. (Repeated as C-26r)
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