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Funding for cspan2 comes from these Television Companies and more including cox. This syndrome is completely rare. Some dont have to be. When youre connected, youre not alone. Cox along with these Television Companies report cspan2 is a public service. Have the privilege of revisiting Congressional District virginia is home to so many i incredible sites, cultur, environmental success for our nation. Work to get to ensure preservation for futuree generations to learn about history will. Among i many of these located in this region of my district, doing a great job keeping it going. When i think about this, while it is great, it is tenth of the size and it does not look as you think. Theyve done a a great job keepg it up and i couldnt be more proud. Home and refuge to indigenous population to create an environment of selfsustaining community enslavement between indigenous relational those who are in every in these artifacts. Swamp is one of the only undergrounde railroads, those clean leg record useless fordo cover to get to freedom. This environmental value in the region, we must do everything we can despite what continues to be present. Ne it is one of the areas and Climate Change will this should be a concern for everyone. This is a unique system with a wide array of plants, insects and it plays a vital role continues with the climate crisisis and helping to absorb e atmosphere and contain our global temperatures. Understand our nations history and helping ensure Healthy Future of the i am proud to fight for the patient. All i this legislation to designate the National Heritage area. To conserve this is why live in an area in the region. The National Heritage and they over simulate and local economic this is an opportunity for the House Appropriations Committee Consideration for the inclusion of this process so the request is to move and preserve one of the oldest in the region. I want to salute and command for your efforts alike on this important and one of the most endangered places in the area. This is true of historical environmental trends in the fight for preservation continue toer include to this is in the process throughout. Please know whenever and wherever you need me. With this innovation and ict lok forward to this collaboration to protect this incredible reason for allowing me to join you today i hope you are wonderful conversation. Thank you for all that you are doing. Take care. Figure. As i mentioned, the conservationist recognizing the important connection between these resources. The National Heritage area are tools used in these efforts and we have a panel to talk more about these areas and we focus on creating the National Heritage as you heard them talk about of it. Id like to also say we have them answer any questions you might have. One quick housekeeping note, will take russians at the end so please put that in the queue and i. We have a number of excellent speakers and we will be sure to get back to you with that, one at ayo time. First up, id like to introduce our director of occupation and education. The interpretation preservation and operation of details in his work further and these are open to theli public. John has the cape henry white house. Will briefly share the historic site. Talking about this response but im going to talk about some ways that are utilizing our open space around that so a brief overview of the projects involved so i am going to go ahead and share. There we go. The first site we are going to dive into, the great aerial shot of the property and negative as i have a map that was drawn up 63 and its upside down the orientation but i did want to say in the process of developing a master plan for the entire property so we are not focused on these structuress but ways we have the landscape and the general public so we own about 23 acres and historically weve only been in this area for the work. So we have so much archaeology and so much work to do and we know from Historical Records on this property we have goal of ours, we want to make sure we are working to have a better understanding prior to 1717 with the original process. I o gives an interview of what t looks like the while they are still undergoing a lot of research we are utilizing the space in as many different ways as we can and this is really through partnership. Everything we are talkingt about is all about partnership. That is really the only way we can possibly move forward so partnering with these age groups for livestock and partnering with master gardeners and develop learning gardens and entrepreneurs and businesses to the town, those are verye traditional partnering and using the landscape we have. We will move on to the property starting with an older map. This is the same situation, 40 acres with this property and we are looking forward to developing land to help us develop a plan to integrate all of that land and that so iarchaeology again is a major factor in how this is going to play out but are fortunate have this permanent forest. Pretty much been used ever since so in collaboration is to do a historicd road train and the pn is to reopen three and a half mile road trail and it was not built on the water, the creek where they could get up and down the with this channel so are working with landowners to see if we can reopen and it will open the property of walking and forest trails. So moving on, this was built in the 1750s and it comes from a 1619 area that john smith began that they werent able to complete. It became part of this corner, you can see the garden club and this event was taking place so we have a walking trail back to the site. There are other ways and local land area and our property for several years. Its just bringing a lot for people to get their own. Moving on to kate henry, we have worked in partnership also with the park site so our interpreters go through different areas on the bottom righthand corner in world war ii and it is builtin and working with this story, we are then able to utilize that space with our interpreters through the area. Just get in idea of how the area was used were 400 plus years. The last area coming up next week, the least amount of property of all historic sites, theres not much landscape and write down the middle here. This is freedom consolation project taking place next week for 160 plus banners are going to go on life and commercial street and they are representing a project to work toward this so this is in partnership with the Mayors Office and it will be the main hearing so we are working with landscape and you can download this and you can see the panels come to life and he goes up into the sky in the car so this is my favorite, it is a great way to tie these issues. So this is just a sample of these landscapes. Now we will from Elizabeth Meyer with the National Heritage help, National Park service along with national and technical assistant, 55 of these areas. Shes also working sorry, a technical issue here. In 44 states this provides Technical Assistance for emerging. Shes worked as an archaeologist and National Park service and this protection program. Thanks and i want to say thank you for the invitation this afternoon. Im going to give an overview. A little bit about benefits and communities in the nation. A little bit about how they are designated in this office. First, what are National Heritage areas . The quick cancer isar there landscape of National Importance designated by congress. A place and an organizational model or conservation effort. When organizing model for local management there. Focus on interdisciplinary process. Ithis is designated and it creates the heritage area and the local government and the institutions orr federal emissions. Many activities address multiple conservation w strategs in once in project so while these are called out separately a lot of projects and programs combine them and i can talk about more examples later on. But in general this is a broad approach towards a large landscape, and it sometimes can cultivate new ways of seeing and learning from landscape from its resources and really at the core from its people. So wherere are the nhas for i know that noty only an organizg model but also a place. As trip mentioned there are 55 heritage areas across 34 states in the country. You can tell hear from this map that they vary in size but in general they are strategic assemblages of resources that allows an important interplay between the landscape and its features to tell a story. They are usually nationally distinctive landscapes meaning this is a place, the best places to tell the story in america. And theyey can represent differt types, e different eras of histy or different elements of our story in america and that can be industry, events, or people, or people or person so some examples, intrinsic telling a story of industry and the industry played out cross landscape includes motor cities National Heritage areas in michigan rivers of steel National Heritage area in the pittsburgh area of pennsylvania, or silos and smokestacks National Heritage area in iowa which tells of an Agricultural Industry here and then you have events or kind of trends our history that can relate to the transportation so we have a bunch of canal systems that are part of the Heritage Area Program we also have with the first one, the first designated heritage Area Heritage area being the illinois and michigan canal connecting the great lakes to the mississippi. Then we also have what i mentioned theres people or person with Abraham Lincoln National Heritage area in central illinois. How his life was shaped by the area. And that we also have the National Cultural heritage herie corridor along the coast from North Carolina down to florida, and the goal of teaching people and how they interacted with landscape and other landscape influenced them. I also encourage anyone to go under website andnd check out ts map thats there and you can see how your life is interacted with heritage areas across the country or maybe didnt realize you in one and benefit from some of the programs insights there. What did he do . How do they fulfill the legislation enter mandates for congress . Mainly through Publicprivate Partnership which will is amount of Cost Effective way to preserve his nationally important natural cultural historical recreational resources. And its kind of true accretion of working partnership. They expand upon traditional conservation approaches we get a large scale approach Community Driven like Grassroots Level that projects and programs are developed and carried out. At the. Same time theres a grassroots in the local effort. The connection is clear with the mission of the park service and furthering that mission across the larger landscape than just what the parkar service owns any part unit boundary. Part of that is making his connections thoe connections to other sites that may be the park service doesnt own and manage themselves, but also helps fill a larger story of our shared heritage. And some of thatha is through expanding upon previously underrepresented communities, helping to tell stories that maybe havent been told previously, making connections and partnerships with groups that maybe havent had an opportunity in the past to tell their story too help them give a platform and a space. Heritage areas also usually provide some grants and thats a way to help their network at the local level and i could help you carry out certain l projects lie Water Quality interpretation and Historic Preservation, signs. Heritage areas are located in virginia may be familiar with them and so maybe you are theres theirs heritage area, now i understand what they do, how they operate across the country which i gave you to examples the one journey through how the grant come out of their premier projects programs as National History academy which is happening partly right now pictures of a Summer Program for middle school and high school students. To virtualitched last year was able to make that switch and i think this year they are also doing some virtual programming. Is also theis Shenandoah Valley National Historic district which despite its name is part of the program in general. And they carry out battlefield preservation activities, interpretation at the visitor center, signage, marketers anything such as conferences and other research sharing events. So whatau dont they do . There is some confusion because they are tied to the park service whether or not they are units or how theyre connected to thets spirit just want to be clear they do not become units of the park service when theyre designated in nha. I did want to point out though on the right hear a photo or give an example how federal lands is connected to a heritage area. This is Muscle Shoals National Heritage area in northern alabama. There is a wildlife refuge within the boundary of the heritage area, the Wheeler National wildlife refuge. The heritage area works with the wildlife refuge when they were doing their planning and Management Planning and how they can provide more interpretation kind of fairness part of the state to the general public or to visitors. And so they were active participants in the planning and understanding how interpretation can be expanded. Heritage every designation does not impact private property rights, meaning there are not regulations that come with it, meaning people can or cant do certain things with the property or have to go through some design review. Thats not part of what nhas arctic also does not require Public Access to sites. The land as a volunteer if you want to work with heritage area it is to provide Public Access to yourr private property or wok in other projects that may come downre the pike. That required all pickets to fall into the just want to mention that they do operate from topdown and there i mean the park service isnt dictating, were notre there evy day managing what happens. Its really defined by the local entity how we work with them and what type of assistance they may need from us and that leads into little bit more, so how does a park service actual put into this program and what do we actually do . We are part of the public site of the Publicprivate Partnership thats created through designation of a heritage area. And i say part because there are other public entities, right . There could be state entities other federal agencies compliant on agencies that come into play with the partnership as i noted with the fish and wildlife refuge. We offer Technical Assistance to existing heritage areas that are required to do a Management Plane with plan with our first designated we process. The we can offer Technical Assistance across the park service not just the nha Program Stafff but connect to other pars of his Staff Members who are expert in interpretation and education. As well as Resource Preservation and connected conservation approach to a larger landscape. There is funding assistance that is provided to heritage areas, and Program Staff to manage those cooperative agreements and attending. And the funding there is to really develop and implement the Management Plan. So help a them carry out those activities in and those actis that are noted in the Management Plan. S of heritage areas to assess their accomplishments and fulfilling their legislation and implementing the Management Plan and their and their use of the federal funding. So here im not going to read all of this, but i just want to point out some benefits of heritage areas and really these are stats that on the Program Gathers annually from the existing heritage areas to understand how theyre using their funds how theyre supporting their communities what networks their their partnering with its a local level and then kind of as those buckets i noted in conservation recreation preservation. Education, how are they interact or how are they carrying out those types of projects . So ill point out one example here is from south park National Heritage area in colorado. They have been working on a project here at the paris mill site. Which was for processing gold ore its from the lets see. So make sure i have it right the mill site dates back to 1874. It is listed in the National R