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The Cultural Resources Management Industry: Providing Critical Support for Building Our Nation’s Infrastructure through Expertise in Historic Preservation. Electronic document. Hutchings, Rich. 2014. "The Miner’s Canary"—What the Maritime Heritage Crisis Says About Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, and Global Ecological Breakdown.
Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. [1] It is a branch of cultural resources management (CRM), although it also draws on the practices of cultural conservation , restoration , museology , archaeology , history and architecture .
Archaeologists, historians, historic architects, and others have been employed in vast numbers in the field of cultural resource management. Cultural resource management is an umbrella term that encompasses archaeology, historic preservation and other disciplines when employed for the purposes of compliance with NHPA and other federal and state ...
First United States law to provide protection of cultural heritage. Gives the President the authority to set aside land for the protection of historic and prehistoric sites and objects of historic or scientific significance; to be labeled as "National Monuments." Excavations and research on sites can only be done after a permit has been issued.
Cultural property includes the physical, or "tangible" cultural heritage, such as artworks. These are generally split into two groups of movable and immovable heritage. Immovable heritage includes buildings (which themselves may include installed art such as organs, stained glass windows, and frescos), large industrial installations, residential projects, or other historic places and monum
World's Richest Acre Park in Downtown Kilgore, where the greatest concentration of oil wells in the world once stood along with the downtown beautifully preserved. Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK) is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.
Conservation OnLine provides resources on ethical issues in conservation, [18] including examples of codes of ethics and guidelines for professional conduct in conservation and allied fields; and charters and treaties pertaining to ethical issues involving the preservation of cultural property.
Pests are defined by the "National Park Service (NPS) Management Policies(2006) section 4.4.5.1 defines a pest as "an organism that interferes with the management objective of the site." For museums, a pest is defined as any organism that jeopardizes museum resources." [14] Pests can include but are not limited to rodents, insects, and birds.