Advocacy

Because of the wide range of challenges and disruptions taking place to effective heritage conservation in the US in recent years, US/ICOMOS has found it necessary to elevate advocacy as a core activity.

With a network that includes monthly information sharing meetings with representatives of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Action, the National Association of State Historic Preservation Officers, the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, the Coalition for American Heritage, and many other important national heritage conservation organizations, US/ICOMOS has publicly taken positions and issued statements on the following issues:

Recent Advocacy

Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Policy Guidance for Heritage and Development Actors

March 19, 2021

“Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Policy Guidance for Heritage and Development Actors” — the new policy document produced by the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (Priority Action 1 Task Team) — was released worldwide on Wednesday, 17 March 2021, during the fifth ICOMOS SDGs Working Group Webinar, Policy + Partnerships: Coming…

Coming Spring 2021: Forward Together: Conservation in a Changing World

February 22, 2021

US/ICOMOS is proud to announce the Spring 2021 publication of Forward Together: Conservation in a Changing World, eds. Brenda Barrett, Jessica Brown, Nora Mitchell, Archer St. Clair and Anabelle Rodriguez. This edited book grew out of the US/ICOMOS International Conference Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in…

US/ICOMOS and ICOMOS Look Ahead to 2021 and Beyond

January 19, 2021

A Message from President Douglas C. Comer, Ph.D. Washington, D.C., January 15, 2021 2020 was a year of social and cultural isolation and conflict, internationally and nationally. A Greek poet could not have contrived the tragedy of a global pandemic as a more fitting outcome of the rising tide of…

Climate Change and Cultural Resources Positions at the National Park Service

November 13, 2020

The National Park Service (NPS) is looking for one archeologist and one architect with strong practical experience who can help advise us on how to manage cultural resources in response to the effects of global climate change. Both positions will sit organizationally in our Science and Research division within the…

Advocacy Update and Alert: Chaco Culture and Carlsbad Caverns World Heritage Sites in New Mexico

October 19, 2020

CHACO CULTURE: The many local, national and international comments and protests to proposed leasing of lands near Chaco Culture National Historical Park and World Heritage Site, have resulted in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announcing that a 10-mile zone of federal land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park will be excluded…

SEPTEMBER 25 DEADLINE to Submit Comments to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Regarding Oil and Gas Leasing Near Chaco Culture World Heritage Site

September 18, 2020

Many of our members attended our recent webinar “World Heritage Site at Risk: Chaco Culture National Historical Park.” If you missed it or want to share the webinar with friends and colleagues, a recording is available here. We wish to extend a warm thank you to our three webinar presenters: Kurt Riley,…

U.S. World Heritage Update: Introducing the Work of the Taos Pueblo Conservation Corps

August 11, 2020

Taos Pueblo Conservation Corps at work on historic preservation of Pueblo structures

Continuously inhabited for over 1,000 years by the Red Willow people, Taos Pueblo in New Mexico was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1992. The Pueblo is a Sovereign Self Governing Nation which is Governed by a Traditional Governing Body consisting of the Tribal Council, Governor’s Office and the…

Call to Establish National Working Groups on ‘Water and Heritage’

July 13, 2020

Image: View of High Bridge, 1916. Photo courtesy NYC Department of Environmental Protection Archives. The High Bridge was an aqueduct bridge that was part of the Croton Aqueduct System in New York City. It reopened for pedestrians only in 2015. Call to Establish National Working Groups on ‘Water and Heritage’…