Herbert Hoover National Historic Site: Historic Property Project Documentation and Climate Change Treatment Plan

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The purpose of this Historic Property Project Documentation (HPPD) and Climate Change Treatment Plan (CCTP) is to update cultural resource documentation and supplement vegetation treatment plans with stabilization recommendations in response to current and potential future effects of climate change at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (NHS). The HPPD is a newly defined National Park Service (NPS) workbook template that collects available information from the Cultural Resource Inventory System (CRIS) and the Facility Management Software System (FMSS) to inform the scope of the project with updated cultural landscape resources. In this project, the HPPD informs a CCTP that will highlight vulnerable resources currently or potentially threatened by climate-driven environmental changes, such as flooding, erosion, vegetation community changes, and fire. Herbert Hoover NHS is significant for its association with the life and work of Herbert Clark Hoover, the thirty-first president of the United States, who is also honored for his career as an elder statesman, humanitarian, and engineer. The site is significant under National Register Criterion A at the national level as an outstanding example of a district that commemorates the life and accomplishments of a president of the United States and National Register Criterion B at the national level as Herbert Clark Hoover’s birthplace and boyhood home. It is also significant under National Register Criterion D at the national level for its intact archeological deposits, both verified and unverified, associated with the contributing resources of the district. The site has two periods of significance. The first encompasses Herbert Hoover’s boyhood in West Branch, from his birth in 1874 until 1885, when the orphaned Hoover left West Branch to live with relatives in Oregon. The second period of significance is 1935 to 1976, signifying the period in which Herbert Hoover and the Hoover family were actively creating a landscape that would reflect the elements that influenced Hoover’s development and character and memorialize his accomplishments as a president, humanitarian, and statesman.

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