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Brenda Barrett, Editor | Eleanor Mahoney, Associate Editor | Deanna Beacham, Outreach Assistant
January 2020 | Vol. 10, No. 1
Conservation's Competing Visions
How should protected areas be managed? Should these special places remain essentially unchanged or is evolution preferable, perhaps even necessary? This month's issue of the Living Landscape Observer examines these questions through a case study of one iconic national park unit on the California coast. Learn more.
About Us
The Living Landscape Observer is a website, blog and monthly e-newsletter that offers commentary and information on the emerging field of large landscape conservation. Want to get involved and share your views?
Conservation and Controversy in Martin County, California
Agriculture has a huge impact on the economy of the San Francisco Bay region. The industry generates billions in revenue and employs close to half a million people. Marin County, especially, is known for nurturing local food production. Yet, the county is also the site of a long running dispute over the presence of private farms and ranches on public lands. The conflict, which dates to the 1960s, exposes the tensions that can underlie the preservation and use of living landscapes.
Flagging Sites of Universal Value
An Iranian architect and artist has proposed a conceptual initiative to highlight the risks faced by World Heritage sites in Iran. The project would underscore the signifiance of these irreplaceable landscapes in a time of heightened world conflict. As it turns out, it is not a completely new idea.
Proceedings of 2018 US/ICOMOS Symposium Available
The papers from  Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in a Changing World  held in November 2018 at The Presidio in San Francisco are now available on the U.S. ICOMOS website. 
News and Notes


Capacity Building on Nature-Culture Linkages: The experience of the UNESCO Chair at the University of Tsukuba, Japa n.

Learn more about a series of capacity building workshops held between 2016 and 2019. Attendees were encouraged to explore linkages between nature and culture in a week of field visits. Topics covered included: agricultural landscapes (2016), sacred landscapes (2017), disasters and resilience (2018), and mixed cultural and natural sites (2019).

The Network for Landscape Conservation partners with the National Park Service to showcase the Connected Conservation webinar series (formerly the Scaling Up webinar series).

Monthly webinars highlight topics and tools aimed at furthering the practice of landscape conservation. Explore the webinars - both the archived past webinars and upcoming scheduled webinars - to hear about innovative work underway in the field across the continent.
Upcoming Events

March 10-12, Washington DC

June11-19, 2020, Marseille, France 

October 1-10, 2020,Sydney, Australia
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