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National Heritage Areas:
Identifying and Measuring Success
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What is a heritage area?
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Whydo it?
Working at a landscape scale
Meeting needs of nature &
culture
Revitalizing community and
identity
Managing change
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Heritage Areas in the United States
24 National Heritage Areas
Designated between 1984-2003
Primarily in the East
18 states
46.5 million people
20% of National
Historic Landmarks
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Other initiatives
State programs
Grassroots initiatives
Collaborative conservation
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National Heritage Areas in an
international context
Working in partnership with communities
IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes/ Seascapes
National Parks as living landscapes
Learning from international exchange
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The Evolving role of NPS
Challenges to developing a program The model of great western parks
Battlefields, parkways, seashores, trails
Partnership parks
National Heritage Areas
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The Evolving role of NPS
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Designated in 1984
97-mile canal corridor
1067 units of local government
State and local involvement
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The Evolving role of NPS
Cane River National Heritage Area
Designated in 1994 Twinned with Cane River Creole National
Historical Park
Park owns 62 of 45,000 acres
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The Evolving role of NPS
Challenges Public demand
Congressional interest
Sixteen new area proposals
Eight study proposals
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The Evolving role of NPS
Criteria for evaluation National importance
Place-based
resources
Public involvement
Community capacity
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The Evolving role of NPS
Remaining questions
Role of National Park Service
Benefits of standardization
Fiscal investment and outcomes
Need to measure success
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Data Collection strategy
What is success?
Pressure to develop metrics
Program accountability
Direct, indirect, and informative impacts
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4 categories ofdata collection1. Physical, social, economic characteristics
2. Overlapping designations, programs, resources
3. Heritage area-sponsored initiatives
4. Aggregate economic leveraging impact
5. Regional economic impacts of heritage tourism
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1. Physical, social, economic characteristics
Demographics
Economics
Inventory of historic & natural
resources
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2. Overlapping designations, programs,
resources
Public lands
American Heritage
Rivers
Scenic byways
Rural development
districts
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3. Heritage area-sponsored initiatives
Education
Volunteering
Resource conservation
Partnerships and projects
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4. Economic leveraging impact
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5. Regional Economics ofheritage tourism
MGM2 Model
Findings
Impacts
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Hypothesis ofchange
Common characteristics:
Working landscapes in transition
Older and changing populations
Stable core resident population
Natural features and economics are
linked Similar cultural landscapes require
similar approaches to managing
change
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What next? Impacts
Justifying value of designation
Defining national interest
Shaping program legislation and policy
Developing a list of social and value-based questions
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What next? Parallel efforts
Sharing a research
agenda
Encouraging graduate
level research
Partnership with related
federal programs
GIS
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What next? Future steps
Methods to accurately measure confluence of
quality of life and multiple definitions of success
existing national/ international models
new model with qualitative aspects
Stronger correlation between designation and
improvement of community and economic values
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What next?At a crossroads
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Proposed national legislation
Collaborative conservation
Landscape level programs
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Questions?
202.354.2222www.cr.nps.gov/heritageareas/
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