Cultural Landscape Report for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
von Bieberstein A and Coffin Brown M. 2016. Cultural Landscape Report for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site. Cultural Landscape Report. MAVA 460 134908. National Park Service. Boston, MA
This report expands upon the management direction outlined in the park's 2015 General Management Plan, which specifically recognizes the cultural landscape as significant for its association with the agricultural pursuits of Martin Van Buren. The objective of this report is to outline a program of recommendations and tasks that will preserve what survives of the historic landscape, restore key features, and rehabilitate the landscape characteristics to both recapture the landscape's former character to the greatest extent possible and support park and farm operations. Recommended actions seek to enhance parallels between Van Buren's experimental and scientific agricultural practices and contemporary sustainable farming techniques. Specific treatment tasks address the issues associated with the restoration of historic vegetation patterns, management of a maturing landscape and viewsheds, enhancement of visitor experience and access, connections to agricultural practices, and interpretation of missing historic features.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- von Bieberstein, Alexandra; Coffin Brown, Margie
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MAVA
- Keywords
- agriculture, Cultural Landscape Report, historic vegetation, Kinderhook, Lindenwald, Mahicans, Martin Van Buren, Martin Van Buren National Historic Park, MAVA, New York, Peter Van Ness, Powell Patent, recreation, sustainable agriculture, treatment, treatment tasks, viewsheds, visitor access, visitor experience, working farm
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 650035: Martin Van Buren NHS Landscape