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Preservation/History Advocacy Group Members

Suggested Activities in Support of the State Plan

Promote the preservation of resources for more than interpretive purposes by educating organizations and agencies about other types of uses that might better serve a community’s needs.



Create a citizen’s guide to historic preservation in your community.


Submit comments on pending economic development plans to ensure inclusion of preservation in plan strategies.

Research other states’ outreach to the education community to find models to use in California; e.g., Colorado’s HistoriCorps program.

Work to have historic preservation integrated into the K-12 history curriculum where appropriate.


Develop technical assistance that provides guidelines for identifying and evaluating cultural landscapes in your community as a means of helping decision makers see the bigger picture when assessing project impacts.

Teach public agencies that consultation is a relationship, not just a process, and should be ongoing and regular, rather than project-specific.

Identify new and innovative funding sources to support cultural heritage initiatives.

Support the effort to strengthen LEED points for preserving historic buildings.

Advocate for amending the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to mandate cultural resources protection whenever possible and refine the categorical exemptions to prevent inadvertent site destruction.

Help your local government achieve Certified Local Government status, address cultural resources in general plan updates, and adopt comprehensive cultural resource ordinances and processes for CEQA compliance. 




Have a preservation presence at regional conferences of advocacy and professional organizations of potential partners including environmental advocacy organizations, local and regional planning agencies, and economic development and travel/tourism conferences and meetings.



Hold a workshop devoted to landscapes issues and invite land managing agencies and organizations to participate.




Create positive, proactive working relationships with public agencies that endure outside the confines of any specific project.

Educate property owners about historic preservation incentives available to them at the federal, state, and local levels; and assist local governments in establishing new incentives.


Promote the Teaching with Historic Places program and make curriculum development experts aware of the program as a resource.

Locate new sources of funding to help teachers, parents, youth organizations, and students gain access to and make better use of historical resources in both formal and informal education.


Provide more interpretation of historical and cultural resources, using a wide variety of delivery methods.

Update older nominations to include more information about groups traditionally under-represented in nominations.




Develop educational and outreach materials in languages other than English.

Actively participate in regional and staewide tourism organizations and work with them to develop a pilot program to demonstrate the value of heritage tourism along a selected heritage corridor.