The Power of Heritage and Place: A 2020 Action Plan to Advance Preservation in Colorado, 2020 Colorado Statewide Preservation Plan

From executive summary: "Heritage and place connect individuals through personal stories and histories in a way that excites, educates, and, most importantly, instills a life-long appreciation in the past. Heritage and place have the unique power and emotional resonance to evoke, enliven, and communicate difficult and lesser-known histories. The Power of Heritage and Place: A 2020 Action Plan to Advance Preservation in Colorado is crafted around the premise that the safeguarding of places, traditions, cultural connections, and the richness of our heritage through education about our collective past is a shared societal responsibility. Sustainability of these efforts is a paramount, overarching theme guiding the specific core strategies outlined in the Action Agenda. Historic preservation encompasses the breadth of activities aimed at preserving national heritage as represented by a wide variety of cultural resources. Preservation can include: acquisition, development, and adaptive use of historic properties; comprehensive planning; research of historic contexts; survey, inventory, evaluation, and designation of historic properties; management, including treatments such as preservation, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction; and education and interpretation. The range of historic and cultural resources—the built environment, prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, districts, objects, mining resources; infrastructure and transportation resources, such as rolling stock, traditional cultural places, traditional cultural practices, language, foodways, music, dance, archives, folkways—are among the most distinct expressions and embodiments of our heritage... Our audience includes youth, elders, grassroots advocates, preservation professionals and organizations, federal and state agencies, local governments with preservation ordinances or zoning, tribes, elected officials and local decision makers, property owners, and all persons or groups with an interest, stake in, or decision authority regarding meaningful places. The plan seeks both to stimulate professionals and organizations and inform individuals interested in saving the story of a special place or promoting an aspect of heritage, by raising consciousness about the benefits of historic preservation. The content of this plan outlines the current state of resources and preservation efforts statewide—including funding sources, major preservation partners, applicable legislation, and public perceptions of the state of preservation and its priorities—with a view toward establishing a baseline from which to forward continuing efforts over the next five years, the active life of the plan. Based on this analysis, goals and strategies developed through the input of a variety of stakeholders are identified in six broad categories, all of which contribute to empowering people to preserve historic places and their shared heritage: GOAL A: Preserving the Places that Matter GOAL B: Strengthening and Connecting the Colorado Preservation Network GOAL C: Shaping the Preservation Message GOAL D: Publicizing the Benefits of Preservation GOAL E: Weaving Preservation Throughout Education GOAL F: Advancing Preservation Practices" Funding was provided in part by a 2010 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (project number CO-10-008, grant number 08-10-21912) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

The Power of Heritage and Place: A 2020 Action Plan to Advance Preservation in Colorado, 2020 Colorado Statewide Preservation Plan

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