The Determinations of Eligibility are regulations that provide guidance in evaluating if a property is eligible for inclusion in the National Register.

Director's Order #28 requires the protection and management of cultural resources in NPS custody through effective research, planning, and stewardship.

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

An introduction to creating videos for Trades Alive, an effort to generate a community approach to creating historic preservation trades tutorial videos.

The Association for Preservation Technology (APT) is a cross-disciplinary, membership association focused on conservation of the built environment.

Learn how to identify whether an old fruit tree in your park is an heirloom variety or not.

Learn more about the symptoms and treatment of fire blight, a common disease that affects plants in the rose family, including apples, pear, and peach.

Tree topping is a drastic pruning practice used to reduce the height of a tree. Learn steps to mitigate the effects of poor pruning or damage to the top of the tree.

Learn how to gain access to the collection of Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents on the Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA).

This video identifies considerations for replacing trees in historic landscapes, from selection to replanting techniques.

Fruitful Legacy explores U.S. orchards and provides technical guidance, illustrations and tables, relevant organizations, and an extensive bibliography.

Watch the video to learn how to rake out mortar joints in historic brick.

The Cultural Landscape Report Collection is available to parks & the public through IRMA. CLRs are used in many aspects of National Park Service management.

Learn the history behind Mission 66 and how the era greatly enlarged the park system and expanded entire categories of parks.

Learn more about the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an insect that feeds on ash tree species, and methods to monitor, mitigate, and restore EAB infested areas.

In 2015, BOEM published 'Characterizing Tribal Cultural Landscapes,' that provides guidance for tribal consultation in advance of proposed undertakings.

As you’re using the Trades Alive video kits, here are some good tips and tricks for operating the Osmo+. To start, check out the Osmo+ User Guide. Seven moves you can make use of while filming. Using slow motion. If you have a Lynda.com subscription, this may be a good course for you on the Osmo. If

Use this template of questions to help write your Trades Alive script. Also, check out the full template at the bottom of this page. We’ve written examples for each step in italics. Topic What is your topic? This should be easily summarized in 3-5 words. Painting Historic Interiors. Audience Who are you making this video

Video Kits How to request a kit Tips and Tricks with the Osmo+ Other Tutorials What makes a good video How to write a script

Learn about repairing wooden windows.  

Step-by-step guide for soil testing. A soil test is an essential tool for cultural landscape preservation maintenance, as it reveals the health of the soil.

Learn about the importance of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act in this engaging and brief video.

Learn more about the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and discover potential ways to control the spread of disease to hemlock trees.

Held in October 2015, the Maritime Cultural Landscape Symposium gathered representatives of government & tribal programs, scholars, & consultants to discuss MCLs.

The Cultural Landscapes Inventory (CLI) report collection is available to parks and the public through IRMA.