Visual resource stewardship conference proceedings: landscape and seascape management in a time of change

Abstract

Contains 27 papers, 5 abstracts, and 7 visual case studies from the Visual Resource Stewardship Conference: Landscape and Seascape Management in a Time of Change, held at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, on November 7–9, 2017. The material covers topical themes related to Federal Agency programs and policies, theory and concepts, visual quality assessment, visual impact assessment and mitigation, and visual resource management tools and technology. The visual case studies emphasize visual presentation of material with supporting text descriptions.

This document is being published in electronic format only. Any corrections or additions will be posted to the Website: https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-P-183.

Titles contained within Visual resource stewardship conference proceedings: landscape and seascape management in a time of change

• Foreword: Realizing America the Beautiful: Taking the Long View in Visual Resource Stewardship
• Introduction: Visual Resource Stewardship: Landscape and Seascape Management in a Time of Change
• New Directions and Common Challenges in Federal Stewardship of Visual Resources
• Protecting scenery at multiple scales
• Changes and Challenges in USDA Forest Service Scenic Resource Management Under the 2012 Forest Planning Rule
• Protecting America's Treasured Landscapes: An Overview and Update of the National Park Service Visual Resource Program
• An Overview of Visual Impact Analysis for Offshore Wind Energy
• Can Professional Aesthetic Landscape Assessments Become More Truly Robust? Challenges, Opportunities, and a Model of Landscape Appraisal
• Cultural Ecosystem Services as Part of Scenic Resource Management?
• Ecology of Scale in Visual Assessments
• Viewing the "Landscape" of the George Washington Memorial Parkway
• Getting in the Game: A National Park Service Approach to Visual Resources Inventory
• The Use of Crowdsourced and Georeferenced Photography to Aid in Visual Resource Planning and Conservation: A Pennsylvania Case Study
• Real-Time Landscape Assessment: The Claytor Lake Visual Management Study
• Identifying Valued Scenes and Settings in an Ordinary Landscape
• Integrating Visual and Cultural Resource Evaluation and Impact Assessment for Landscape Conservation Design and Planning
• Community Forestry Practice and Visible Stewardship: A Case Study Evaluation in British Columbia
• Cascade Head Scenery and Change: Cascade Head Law and Our Evolving Understanding of Scenery and Landscape
• Protecting Night Skies and Naturally Dark Conditions in National Parks
• Comparison of Visual Impact Analysis Under the National Environmental Policy Act and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
• Reclaiming Visual Stewardship in Tucson, Arizona: Is it Possible?
• Visually Integrated: Linking Visual Impact Analyses, Mitigation, and Reclamation for Large-Scale Linear Projects
• Mitigating Visual Impacts of Utility-Scale Energy Projects
• Surface Color Treatment of Transmission Line Structures
• Organizing Trails: Proven Methods for Organizing the Complexities of National Historic Trail Impact Analysis
• Modeling Coastal Sedimentation and Erosion for Design Applications within the Fields of Landscape Architecture and Architecture
• Expanding the Use of Visualization Technology: 3D Modeling
• Abstracts presented at the Visual resource stewardship conference proceedings
• Preserving the cultural and visual character of the Blue Ridge Parkway's historic designed motor road landscape
• Integrating visual resource and visitor use management planning: a case study of the Moses H. Cone National Historic District, Blue Ridge Parkway
• Long distance landscapes: conducting a baseline visual assessment for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail
• Visual resource stewardship at the neighborhood scale: methods for assessing a vacant land reuse program
• On the role of the public in visual impact assessment, with an invitation for reader participation
• The Maine Wind Energy Act… in a time of change
• Land art generator initiative

Citation

Gobster, Paul H.; Smardon, Richard C., eds. 2018. Visual resource stewardship conference proceedings: landscape and seascape management in a time of change. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-183. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 279 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-P-183.