Learn about the de-escalation model, S.L.O.W., and the ways you can implement the model in your interactions with park visitors.

News You Can Use Landscape Culture is a quarterly newsletter publication for landscape stewards prepared by the NPS Park Cultural Landscapes Program. Please find past issues of the newsletter below. SUMMER: Read the Summer 2019 edition (PDF) Replanting John Muir’s Victorian Garden 1 Selecting Nursery Stock Part 2: Plant Inspection Employee Spotlight: Lanette King Pests

This page is designed to empower you with resources curated by a diverse group of Employee Learning & Development staff members from across the service to support you in being either a mentor, mentee, or both!

What interests you? What do you love learning about? Building Audience Centered Experiences (ACE) is all about how curious we are

A more holistic examination of our shared history can help us better integrate knowledge into a new way of being and interacting together. Use these resources to learn more.

Access a list of discussion guides designed to help you open lines of discussion with visitors, explore new perspectives, invite mutual learning, and potentially evolve collective meaning.

The Workplace Satisfaction Project shares a menu of diverse morale building resources that employees at any level can use to improve their workplace.

Learn how to transform your website into a thriving hub of a much larger creative community by just checking the fuel gauge and seeing how full of good, useful content your website is.

In this resource, learn how to encourage your visitors to participate and express themselves virtually.

Learn how to leverage social media and questions to engage visitors and encourage them to join a virtual conversation.

The Cultural Resources Training Catalog for 2020, offering both in-person classroom and online courses for National Park Service employees

Watch Jason Church discuss a traditional Louisiana construction method called Bousillage, a Louisiana French term for walls made of mud. Watch the Video To learn more, visit Bousillage.

Watch the Video To learn more, visit Application and Preparation of Limewash.

Watch the Video To learn more, visit Iron Fence Repair.

Resetting a Stone Grave Marker To learn more, visit Resetting a Stone Grave Marker. Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers To learn more, visit Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers. Resetting Ground-Supported Headstones To learn more, visit Resetting Ground Supported Headstones. Cleaning a Stone Grave Marker To learn more, visit Cleaning a Stone Grave Marker.

Learn how you can use ACE to develop programs and experiences for your younger audiences too!

Learn about what is and isn't covered by copyright laws as a Government employee who creates content. Can it be remixed? Can others use it without permission? Learn here!

Using social media to engage and interact with your visitors? Use this resource as a reference guide to encourage and shape how you acknowledge and respond to them.

Social media can be an audience centered, resource driven experience – the resource is the battery and the visitor is the light that shines.

As we shift to sharing park resources and stories in a virtual sphere, use the best practices outlined in this guide to help you plan and execute an engaging virtual tour for your visitors.

Access online trainings, webinars, and learning resources to help you enhance your knowledge in the areas of Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources.

Selecting nursery stock or creating specifications for planting can have a large impact on successful plant establishment in the cultural landscape.

When tree removal is needed in NPS cultural landscapes, the preservation objective is generally to replace contributing trees in order to preserve the historic character. These considerations for planning, planting, and establishment will make your tree replacement project a success.

As dedicated employees who love their work but struggle with good work-life balance, NPS employees might be prime candidates for work-related burnout.

As you’re preparing your Trades Alive video, here are some good tips and tricks to remember while filming. It’s easy to remember These videos are meant to be tutorials, and at the end, you want your audience to know and understand how to do the technique you’re using. So, make them easy to remember and