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Date: | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:38:07 -0500 |
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I guess I missed the memo on the above thread, but would like to add that
over simplification of the preservation alliances that drive historic
preservation in America would not benefit historic archaeology. During my tenure with
the County of San Diego, I rubbed shoulders with Earth First attorneys at
fund raisers held by Save Our Forests and Ranch Lands, Sierra Club, Friends of
Botany, Mountain Defense League, and the Center for Biological Diversity. All
those folks saw old logging sites, historic towns, cemeteries, and related
archaeology as part of the ecology they were fighting to save. While the icons
of so-called "tree huggers" will not win over logging truck drivers, the
sentiment reaches millions of urban dwellers. The overall effect has been to
shift land development in San Diego County away from the rural areas and
concentrate on upward densification of the urban core. Of course, this leads to lots
of historical archaeology contracts. Now that I am out of public service
(having given 28 collective years in all branches), I am free to discuss those
alliances and how the so-called icons worked so well together. And, I might add,
those very icons substantially contributed to bringing down Rep. Richard
Pombo in the last election (Rep. Pombo wanted to gut the National Historic
Preservation Act and virtually send the Endangered Species Act to extinction).
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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