elizabeth watson , faicp
Principal at Heritage Strategies, LLC
principal , heritage strategy , llc
passion working team community enhance great place pursue great mission , using strategic planning innovative program . increasingly digital world . cultivate human connection , wise interaction , strong advocate . since 1992 , served nonprofit governmental client planner , project manager , facilitator . today , principal heritage strategy , specializing planning historic region , place , landscape . project often combine regional planning community education require broad knowledge community development , land use planning , urban design . gained many insight planning process work heritage area , scenic byway , historic community , working waterfront , heritage tourism . former nonprofit executive state official , independent planner small business owner , offer insight complexity public-private partnership , cross-jurisdictional collaboration , multi-level governmental cooperation , demand public leadership . often advise client strategic planning , civic engagement , board development , fundraising . co-author national trust historic preservation ’ saving america ’ countryside : guide rural conservation ( john hopkins university press , 1997 , 2nd ed. ) . 1992 , co-produced award-winning environmental film chesapeake bay foundation , chesapeake : living land . demonstrate combined interest history , landscape , environment . specialty : community regional planning , heritage area , scenic byway , heritage tourism , interpretation , historic preservation , environmental protection , land conservation , recreational development . nonprofit management , strategic planning , board development , fundraising , civic engagement . meeting facilitation , public presentation , writing , editing , production publication film .
Heritage Strategies, LLC
In 2009, I helped to found Heritage Strategies, LLC, to work with many public officials and advocates on historic places, scenic byways, and landscape-scale stewardship. 

We have completed plans for NJ's Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area (NHA), Niagara Falls NHA, NY; Abraham Lincoln NHA, IL; Sangre de Cristo NHA, CO; and Freedom's Way NHA, MA & NH, plus a strategic plan for NY’s Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (NHC) and an update of the Delaware & Lehigh NHC plan (I led the 1994 plan for Mary Means & Associates). 

Other projects I have led:
• Preservation plan: Asheville & Buncombe Co., NC
• Heritage tourism plan: Butte & Anaconda, MT
• Strategic plan: Potomac River Heritage Tourism Alliance, Prince George's Co., MD
• Preservation plan: Erie, CO, former coal-mining town and now major Front Range suburb
• Cultural asset & economic network inventory: Southern Finger Lakes, NY
• Heritage development plan: Centreville, MD
• Strategic plans:  national organization English in Action (NYC); Colorado Scenic & Historic Byways Commission; St. Augustine Historical Society (FL)
• Common strategy: Religious Freedom National Scenic Byway (So, MD), with 3 National Historic Trails (Potomac Heritage; Captain John Smith Chesapeake; Star-Spangled Banner)
• Strategic conversation: Greenwood, an African-American neighborhood in Tulsa, OK

As a versatile subcontractor, I have co-authored "Making your Community Work for All Ages: A Toolkit for Cities” for Mid-America Regional Commission of Kansas City and a strategic plan for Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission, VT (both w/ Sand County Studios); and worked on heritage tourism development in 9 counties on the Tennessee River byway west of Nashville (Lose & Assoc.), working waterfront plans for Tilghman Island, Bellevue, Oxford, and Rock Hall, MD (Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects), and a master plan for the Chinati Foundation, an internationally known art site in West Texas (Sasaki).
Birchrunville, PA
Principal
University of Pennsylvania
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For the Historic Preservation program of the School of Design, I taught an optional second-year graduate-level seminar in rural planning and historic preservation. Field trips were to Kent County, Maryland, and the Oley Valley of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, PA
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Lecturer
George Washington University
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In the fall of 2012 and again in 2013, I taught a graduate-level one-credit on-line course in cultural heritage tourism for the School of Business, Master of Tourism Administration Program.
Washington, DC
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Adjunct Instructor
Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc.
I provided part-time contractual work as executive director and sole staff of the Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area, one of twelve state-recognized areas in Maryland, encompassing 21 small towns, 1,200 square miles in all – Maryland’s largest – here in my home (coastal) region on Maryland's Eastern Shore. I was responsible for all program development, public outreach, and day-to-day administration. The first official year of operations began in 2005, following three years of planning and public outreach. Through my tenure, 71 applications received nearly $1.3 million in local and state heritage-area grants, matched by another $5 million in cash (total project value nearly $8 million including grant funds and both cash and in-kind matches), aiding 38 organizations through grants alone; many others benefited from the technical assistance, grant coaching, and strategic planning that I provided.
Maryland's Eastern Shore
Executive Director
Independent Planning Projects
In the fall of 2008, independent work that I had completed in the previous year came to fruition when Routes 12 and 70 along the North Carolina Outer Banks gained recognition as a National Scenic Byway (they have since won a $900,000 federal highway grant to install walking paths in several villages).  

Other independent work prior to 2008 and the start of Heritage Strategies, LLC, included facilitating conversations on transportation issues in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee side) through two consulting teams’ sequential efforts to address those issues; a recreational and tourism development plan for Coker Creek, a rural village in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee; and an eco-tourism plan for Queen Anne's County, MD. The latter was selected for inclusion in Guide to Best Practices in Tourism and Destination Management, by Rich Harrill, Ph.D, ed., Georgia Institute of Technology 2004 (available on Amazon).

Also undertook a detailed greenways plan for Anne Arundel County (MD) as part of a team; contributing planner responsible for implementation section of the plan and public facilitation. The County and the prime contractor, Environmental Resources Management, Annapolis, MD, won the Government Innovation Award of the 8th Annual Smart Growth Awards, Maryland’s Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Commission; and an Award of Excellence, MD APA 2002.
Greenbelt, MD and Chestertown, MD
Consulting Community Planner
National Endowment for the Humanities
Served with three scholars and two museum specialists to review applications for a We the People Initiative in cultural landscape studies.
Washington, DC
Reviewer, We the People Initiative Grants (cultural landscape)
University of Maryland
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In the fall of 2001 and spring of 2003, I taught a graduate-level course, “Historic Preservation and Growth Management in Rural Areas,” for the Historic Preservation Program in the School of Architecture.
College Park, MD
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Adjunct Instructor
John Milner Associates
Worked on many projects with JMA, as JMA/Watson and later as staff:

PA Greenways Plan-Team member for statewide policy plan issued in 2001. With The RBA Group; policy analyst, supervising cultural resources planner, editor.

Booker T. Washington National Monument General Management Plan, VA-Coordinated this plan in Franklin County for the National Park Service (NPS); prime, Heritage Partners.

Oil Heritage Region Reconnaissance, PA-Served in 2000 on a NPS team evaluating a Congressional proposal to make this western PA area a National Heritage Area; later successful.

Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, VA-Team leader for management plan for 10 Civil War battlefields and 8 VA counties. The plan led to the NPS's decision to create a national site at Cedar Creek Battlefield.

Portland Neighborhood Heritage Development Study, Louisville, KY-Addressed interpretation, visitor services, and recreational access to the Ohio River;supported planning for JMA’s restoration of the US Marine Hospital, a National Historic Landmark.

MD's Historic National Road-Undertook the corridor plan for this byway in Baltimore and seven other MD jurisdictions as supervising cultural resources planner, public involvement specialist, and organizational management consultant. Led to National Scenic Byway status; won MD ASLA 2001 Traveling Award for prime Lardner/Klein.

Anacostia Trails Heritage Area Management Plan, MD-Led plan for 14 towns in Prince George’s County now known as Maryland Milestones; won APA National Capital Area 2001 Award of Excellence in Community Building for MD-National Capital Park & Planning Comm'n, Prince George's Co. District.

Waterloo Prairie Pathways Interpretive Plan, Iowa-A plan for outdoor interpretation on 50 miles of trails in the Silos & Smokestacks NHA, implementing an Interpretive Plan we developed for the heritage area to improve the visitor experience in 37 counties. Consulting regional planner, meeting facilitator, editor.
Bowie, Greenbelt, and Bladensburg, MD
Senior Planner
University of Virginia
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During this period, taught a graduate-level course for the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture each fall, under the auspices of the historic preservation graduate program. It came to be regarded by students as a planning survey course, since I taught the course by showing how historic preservation fits within a variety of other planning topics, from transportation, neighborhood planning, and environmental review to the classic local-state-federal system based on the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Charlottesville, VA
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Adjunct Instructor, Historic Preservation Planning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Participated as guest lecturer in a five-day seminar produced by the NC Arts Council and the University of North Carolina, "Sustainable Folk Arts Programming." As one of three panelists, lectured and led discussion on ways to relate programs supporting traditional culture to historic preservation, planning, and environmental protection.
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Lecturer
Consulting Community Planner
During this period I undertook several projects for Maryland Greenways and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, including co-authoring "Potomac River Watershed Visions" (Rockville, Maryland: Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 1995), a report to Congress with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program and the Maryland Greenways Commission. This major report followed preparation of "Potomac Visions" (15 min. slide-and-video), produced for the Maryland Greenways Commission with additional funding from the Maryland Historical Trust (June 1994, executive producer) and a small supporting publication, "Potomac River Greenways: A Shared Agenda" (writer/researcher). Ultimately this led to my writing the successful nomination for the American Heritage River Designation of the Potomac River Basin, which involved strategic meetings with a wide variety of elected and civic leaders drawn from the basin in four states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia.
Potomac River Basin
Independent Planning Projects
Mary Means & Associates
Mary Means hired me to supervise a superb team's completion of the management plan for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor in eastern Pennsylvania, the third National Heritage Area to be named by Congress. She had earlier completed a plan for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor (now John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC), providing a cornerstone for what would become a much larger and more detailed plan done for the D&L.
Alexandria, VA
Senior Planner
Walkabout Productions, Inc.
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Environmental filmmaking company; principal project during this time was a film for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, "Chesapeake, Living Off the Land" (30 min; film) which won a 1992 CINE Golden Eagle; Telly Award; New York Film Festival Finalist; Regional Emmy Finalist; Bronze Apple, National Educational Film Festival. 

In 1985, Russ Nichols and I produced "For the Common Good: Preserving Private Lands with Conservation Easements" (16 min.; film) ; produced for the Land Trust Alliance (I was executive producer and co-scriptwriter). It won an Honorable Mention in the American Film & Video Festival, and led to the later formation of this company, which remains in business in Annapolis.
Annapolis, MD
Principal
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources
Special Assistant to Secretary of Environmental Resources Arthur A. Davis - Staff coordinator for the chief of the state agency responsible for all environmental regulatory programs and state parks and forests. Known then as the Department of Environmental Resources, it has since been divided into the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Protection. Duties included service on the state's Agricultural Preserve Board, 1989, during the board's start-up phase, planning for the expenditure of $100 million in bond monies to acquire development rights on farmland; and on the federal Appalachian National Scenic Trail Advisory Committee, 1987-88, when the committee developed a 14-state memorandum of agreement governing coordination of federal, state, and private actions concerning the Trail.
State of Pennsylvania
Special Assistant
Land Trust Alliance
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Worked as the first governmental liaison for the Land Trust Alliance (then Land Trust Exchange based in Maine), principally lobbying on the 1986 Tax Reform Act, concerning effects of possible changes to the charitable contribution tax deduction and their effects especially on donation of land and conservation easements. Also conducted the first national land trust census (originating a program that continues to this day; it was based on my master's thesis, which looked at practices by 17 land trusts in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states). As a part of the public outreach around our campaign to build visibility, created an award-winning film, "For the Common Good" (16 min.; film), and a companion print piece for national distribution. Assisted in early organizing for the first National Land Trust Rally.
Washington, DC
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Federal Government Liaison
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Investigated an approach that incorporates preservation into ordinary planning, especially in one community, Oley, PA, a 25-square-mile township we successfully nominated in its entirety to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Rural Program's work at the time culminated in co-authorship of Saving America’s Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation. Work involved fundraising, program development, community organizing, and cooperation with consultants, universities, and local, state and federal agencies. Also was assistant editor/writer on a major publication project, "The Whole Preservation Catalogue" (April 1978 – May 1979). On special assignment, led the Congressional floor fight to preserve the west front of the U.S. Capitol, the only original facade remaining plus a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr..
Washington, DC
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Rural Conservation Program Staff (Acting Director 1983 - 1984)
Loeb Fellow '94
Enjoyed an academic year as a mid-career fellow, participating in courses at the Kennedy School of Government as well as the Graduate School of Design.
Advanced Environmental Design
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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M.R.P.
Degree awarded May 1981.
Regional Planning, Historic Preservation
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Penn State University
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Preservation Institute: Nantucket
PI:N has celebrated more than 40 years of providing summer-school historic preservation training from a location in one of the greatest historic districts in the US.
Historic Preservation
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University of Florida
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B.A.
History
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Wake Forest University
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High School
Participated in band, basketball and the school newspaper; served as first president of the newly established student government council, senior year.
North Lenoir High School, LaGrange, NC
High School
Attended WCU's second summer term, on-campus in a program offered for gifted high school students.
Principles of Environmental Biology
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Western Carolina University
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American Planning Association, American Institute of Certified Planners
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Preservation planning, including Heritage Strategies experience in Topeka, KS, and Asheville, NC.
"Preservation Planning Comes of Age"
Planning magazine/American Planning Association
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Lasting Landscapes
Protected areas could offer best practices for rural planning. Elizabeth Watson reports.

Sidebar: Unique Protections

Web Only Sidebar: Programs for 'Protected Areas'
"Lasting Landscapes"
Planning magazine/American Planning Association
https://www.planning.org/planning/2010/feb/
Since publication of the first edition of Saving America's Countryside in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources has met with much success. Approaches considered experimental just a decade ago—greenways and heritage areas, for example—are now widespread. Yet at the same time, such disquieting developments as continuing suburban sprawl, the weakening of federal laws, and the so-called property rights movement all suggest that work remains to be done.

Saving America's Countryside was the first and is still the only comprehensive, step-by-step guide to protecting the natural, historic, scenic, and agricultural resources of a rural community. The authors show how to organize a conservation effort, inventory available resources, pass effective new laws, set up land trusts, take advantage of federal programs, and change public attitudes.

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the past eight years and adds a chapter on making economic development compatible with rural conservation. It includes new case studies, more than fifty new illustrations, and a section on heritage tourism. As in the previous edition, the detailed case studies document a variety of successful—and often surprisingly innovative—conservation efforts by residents of rural communities throughout the United States.
Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Among the University's top honors. See link to the video tribute to my work made by Wake Forest, provided in my opening statement on LinkedIn.
Wake Forest University
WFU Distinguished Alumna
Awarded funds for studies that led to the writing of an article for Planning magazine, “Lasting Landscapes.”
James Marston Fitch Foundation
James Marston Fitch Fellow
For: Chesapeake: Living Off the Land. CINE honors and champions the creators of exceptional media content and builds and supports a community of professional, emerging and student film, television and digital content creators through the CINE Golden Eagle Awards and other programs. 

This film also won a Telly Award and a Bronze Apple, National Educational Film Festival; and was both a New York Film Festival Finalist and a Regional Emmy Finalist (News & Documentary category; National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, National Capital Chapter)
CINE (Council on International Non-Theatrical Events)
CINE Golden Eagle
For: Saving America’s Countryside (first edition). ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe.
American Society of Landscape Architects
ASLA Honor Award
For: Saving America's Countryside (first edition; see link to second edition, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, in my opening statement on LinkedIn). 

Established in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation academics and professionals to the book with the most potential for positively impacting the discipline of historic preservation in the United States. In making its selection, the jury focuses on books that break new ground or contribute to the intellectual vitality of the preservation movement.
Center for Historic Preservation, University of Mary Washington
Historic Preservation Book Prize
For: For the Common Good: Preserving Private Lands with Conservation Easements (festival and issuer no longer exist), made with Nichols Productions (subsequently Walkabout Productions) for the Land Trust Exchange (subsequently the Land Trust Alliance)
Educational Film Library Association
Honorable mention, American Film and Video Festival
Environment
The Countryside Institute
Participated in the founding of a nonprofit organization in 1990 to support conservation of natural, cultural and human resources in rural communities, led by Dr. Henry A. Jordan. Sponsor of the International Countryside Stewardship Exchange Program (in cooperation with organizations in Canada and Great Britain). The organization became known as the Glynwood Center upon its move to the Hudson River Valley in 1997.
Member, Board of Directors (Secretary, 1994-95)
Environment
Institute for Conservation Leadership
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Participated in the Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 to provide services in leadership training and long-range planning and development to volunteer conservation organizations. The organization has survived and thrived, with a major impact on the conservation and environmental movement nationwide.
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Member, Board of Directors (Vice Chair, 1995–1996)
Environment
National Park System Advisory Board
During my year as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, participated in an 18-member committee assembled by the National Park System Advisory Board to study legislative and programmatic changes to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, reported in a white paper, “An American Network of Parks and Open Space: Creating a Conservation and Recreation Legacy.”
Participant, Land and Water Conservation Fund special study committee
Environment
National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative
Participated in a strategic planning meeting for the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative.
Participant, strategic planning session
Environment
National Coalition of Heritage Areas
During my year as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, I assumed the duties of chairing the National Coalition of Heritage Areas (since morphed into the Alliance of National Heritage Areas). This organization grew out of a 1992 gathering called by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and other national organizations at my urging (following a consulting assignment to write the first formal heritage area management plan, for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor) and was organized by Shelley Mastran and myself. From that, we organized two national rallies and the national alliance grew out of that. The purpose of the organization was primarily to seek national program legislation for National Heritage Areas. Although "organic" legislation for the National Park Service to provide a true home for heritage areas has yet to pass in the Congress (it seems to be a perpetual also-ran, each Congress), the number of heritage areas has grown from about five in this period to 49 today, and a program does exist within the NPS to support them.
Chair
Environment
American Planning Association
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In 2010, the American Planning Association sent me on two visits with an international delegation to Aruba to advise on heritage tourism and planning issues for this Caribbean island; in 2013, I joined a team of three representing the APA and the USA in "100 experts to Xinjiang," an international three-day event event organized by the Chinese government, where I was assigned to visit a historical park under development along the Silk Road.
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Team member, international delegations
Environment
http://kentalliance.org/
All-volunteer-led KCPA was formed to fight a proposal for a major wind turbine facility-turned-solar on prime farmland in an agricultural zone where such energy development is not allowed under local ordinance. (The county has zoning for utility-scale solar installations, it has the highest per capita renewable energy generation in Maryland, and KCPA supports renewable energy. This fight was about the appropriate SITING of such facilities.) The developer sought pre-emption under state law. In a precedent-setting ruling issued in January of 2017, the Public Service Commission judge agreed with our arguments, concerning the cultural landscape, agricultural economics, local zoning, and local government leadership. The area was an important historic landscape we studied when I led planning for the local heritage area fifteen years earlier. We are now fighting a similar application ("precedent-setting" being not yet proven in a second win) for another large-scale installation proposed next door to Chestertown, a National Historic Landmark district, similarly not zoned for such industrial use. KCPA will remain in place long-term to educate the community on Kent County’s special resources and lead other fights ahead, as the Atlantic seaboard becomes increasingly crowded and survival of Kent County’s working landscape becomes an increasingly challenging economic strategy. We completed a major cultural landscape study of the county,  recognized in 2020 by Preservation Maryland for a statewide award. We are now in the process of working with MPT on a half-hour video documentary about Kent County's cultural landscape, expected for release in the spring of 2022. This work represents a renewed commitment to my home community and my work as executive director of the Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area.
Board Member, Kent Conservation and Preservation Alliance
American Institute of Certified Planners
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Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP)
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American Planning Association
planning.org
Fellow of the College of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP)
https://planning.org/faicp/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-j-fanning-jr-45827732
New York City Metropolitan Area
Thomas J. Fanning, Jr.
Partner at Heritage Strategies LLC
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Woodbury, NY
John Litke
Senior Vice President at Heritage Strategies LLC
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Johns Island, SC
Trish Carothers
Independent Contractor at Self Employed
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Pottstown, PA
Robert stoudt
Facilities Services Professional
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Pleasanton, CA
Patricia Carothers
Founding Director
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Johnstown, OH
Steve Goodwin
Assistant Director, Appalachia Ohio Alliance
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Glouster, OH
Gary Conley
Ohio Nurseryman at GreenReach, LLC Native plant and seed nursery
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Philadelphia, PA
Colin Nahill
Green Industry
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Baltimore, MD
James Sink, PLA
Senior Associate at Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc.
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Chagrin Falls, OH
Kendrick Chittock
Expedition & Fine Art Photographer
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Orrville, OH
Matthew Smith
NE Ohio Scenic River Manager at Ohio Department of Natural Resources
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Hartford, CT
Kate Schramm
Connecticut folklore & folklife
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Columbus, OH
Jerry Rouch
Deputy Director, Ohio EPA
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Lancaster County, PA
Sarah Bennett
Director of Client Services at RLPS Architects
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Harrisburg, PA
Brenda Barrett
Editor of the Living Landscape Observer
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Port Angeles, WA
Allyson Brekke, AICP
Deputy Planning Officer for Gallatin County
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Los Angeles County, CA
Kaizer Rangwala, AICP, CEcD, CNU-A
Principal at Rangwala Associates
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Portland, OR
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GB Place Making - Barcelona
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Rivers of Steel has received a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) for the restoration and…
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We're thrilled to share that the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration have announced $39.5M…
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Huge opportunity to achieve Vision Zero in the U.S. - this new transportation bill challenges us to BUILD BACK BETTER!
APA Sustainable Communities Division
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
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PlannersWeb.com / Planning Commissioners Journal
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Conservation Easement
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Urban Retail Institute
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Land Trust Professionals
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American Planning Association
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Preservation Professionals
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APA: Urban Design and Preservation Division
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Natural Resource Management Professionals
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Responsible travel and tourism
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Heritage Conservation/Historic Preservation of the Built Environment Network
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International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
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Sustainability Professionals
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