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Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor Management Plan Receives Award05-08-09 | News

Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor Management Plan Receives Award

There is no place in our country more saturated with history than the region celebrated in this fascinating book. Along the Route 15 corridor southward from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, through the eastern edge of West Virginia, western Maryland and down through Virginia, four centuries of the nation?EUR??,,????'?????<

Professional community planners and professional landscape architects across Virginia recently honored The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership with two separate and distinct awards for the Partnership?EUR??,,????'?????<

In March, the American Planning Association Virginia Chapter (VAPA) awarded the JTHG Partnership?EUR??,,????'?????<

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Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C., a nationally recognized leader in preparing corridor management plans for the heritage tourism and travel industry culled the information gathered in the public sessions and formally prepared the management plan.

The awards were presented on March 26 at the VAPA annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia and on April 17 at the VASLA annual meeting at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond.

VAPA is a non-profit educational and membership organization dedicated to advancing the art, science and profession of good planning ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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The VASLA is a non profit that promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship. It recognized the JTHG Corridor Management Plan for its stewardship of a nationally significant landscape. The Corridor Management Plan presents land-use analyses used to determine priority conservation areas associated with the context of historic sites, the view-shed along the travel route, and other areas where conservation interests overlapped, such as watershed protection. The Plan also outlines strategies for interpreting and telling the stories of this valuable landscape, rich in historical, natural, scenic and recreational resources. The plan presents an approach ?EUR??,,????'?????<

The purpose of VASLA awards program is to recognize excellence, exemplary performance, and significant contributions by the landscape architecture profession within the Commonwealth to encourage the application of visionary and progressive solutions to the issues, problems, and opportunities challenging landscape architects; and to provide a forum for the review and evaluation of work currently shaping our environment. Submissions were reviewed in three categories: design, planning and analysis, and research and communications.

The JTHG is a non-profit, four-state, public-private partnership that brings businesses, preservationists, heritage sites, landowners, farmers, students, teachers, concerned citizens and elected officials to the table to celebrate America?EUR??,,????'?????<

The Journey Partnership is dedicated to raising national and local awareness of the unparalleled history in the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, which generally follows the Old Carolina Road (Rt. 15/20/231) from Gettysburg, through Maryland, to Monticello in Albemarle County, VA. We invite everyone to come, stay and explore our rich American heritage. For more information, go to: HallowedGround.

Source: JTHG Partnership Communications Director, John@JTHG.org