Cultural Landscape
STRATEGIC AND INSIGHTFUL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE EXPERTS
Cultural landscape experts with a holistic preservation philosophy.
Landscapes are cradles holding cultural memories worth preserving. With Chronicle Heritage, you get an efficient and effective team of experts who understand the relationship people have with place. We also have the experience you seek, completing over 800 cultural landscape projects over two decades of work.
Whether you need a cultural landscape assessment, are looking for stakeholder collaboration and engagement, or need help with documentation and inventory, preservation planning, mitigation plans, or regulatory advice, we have the know-how to keep your project moving ahead.
There are few places left in the world that don’t have some detectable human cultural imprint. Assessing cultural significance is an important process filled with variables that include stakeholder engagement and an understanding of regulations. The bigger, longer, or more federally connected your project, the more likely you are to need this wider-lens assessment. Chronicle can help you understand the scope early, before it catches you off guard. We are familiar with the interests of agencies like UNESCO and the National Park Service (NPS), and will help your project move forward with consideration for relevant specifications.
We understand the nuances of cultural landscape work in relation to your renewable energy (solar, wind and battery storage), transmission line and utility, transportation, land development, or mining project, and will make sure your compliance needs are handled carefully while at the same time respecting your timeline and bottom line. Proactive compliance is almost always cheaper than reactive remediation, helping you avoid project delays, reputational damage and litigation risk down the line.
Cultural Landscape Assessment
Chronicle provides assessments to determine the value of human imprints in a particular landscape.
Landscapes can be “read” – much like a text can be read. The lens through which a landscape is read is critical, and we are adept at assessing a landscape through multiple lenses. We conduct comprehensive assessments that include evaluating cultural significance and historical context along with the physical features of a landscape. We’ll also look at the evolution of a landscape, considering time and usage as part of the story. We use the latest technological methods to record and document a landscape in the least invasive way.
Stakeholder Collaboration and Engagement
Chronicle has teams of experts that can help with stakeholder collaboration and engagement wherever your project is located.
We gather information from all relevant stakeholders, including local communities, indigenous groups, landowners, and government agencies. We manage the process both thoroughly and efficiently so that your project isn’t delayed unnecessarily.
Research, Documentation, and Inventory
Chronicle’s team knows how to access and search relevant museum records and other historical archives in order to determine a landscape’s significance.
We also go onsite to document and inventory heritage resources so you have them for ongoing reference and decision-making. GIS mapping, enhanced feature mapping, LiDAR, and photography are just some of the noninvasive ways we use technology to document and inventory a landscape.
Preservation Planning
We will help you develop strategic plans and guidelines for the long-term preservation and management of cultural landscapes.
Mitigation Plans
Sometimes projects – especially in sectors like power plant construction, oil and gas infrastructure, mining, and land development – require monitoring and mitigation plans for affected landscapes of cultural significance.
Regulatory Advice
Our team at Chronicle is knowledgeable in the legal requirements governing heritage resources of all kinds.
From UNESCO to NPS, every agency and regulatory body has specific requirements and concerns that dictate their regulations. NPS, for example, lists four different kinds of cultural landscapes, each with important qualifications – and we are versed in all of them.
Survey of over 3,000 acres for U.S. Forest Service
Chronicle conducted a Class III cultural resource inventory of 3,200 rugged and remote acres within the Tonto National Forest in advance of a proposed fuels thinning project by the U.S. Forest Service.
Renewable Energy Case Study
Providing Cultural and Paleontological Resource Support for the Palen Solar Project
Chronicle provided cultural and paleontological resource support to EDF Renewables for the Palen Solar Project (PSP), located on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Riverside County, California. In addition, Chronicle played a vital role in various aspects of cultural and paleontological resource management for the PSP.
Cultural Resource and Heritage Management Solutions for Major Projects
Challenging projects enliven us – so bring us your project headache. We’ll partner with you all the way. And, we’ll start by bundling our services so you meet your milestones efficiently.