Truly informed, every public fries. Get informed straight from the source on cspan unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters most is your own. This is what democracy looks like there cspan, powered by cable. I am delighted to move us to our second panel, olmsted junior, the Conservation Movement in state and National Parks and we are lucky to have lauren meier, history and Landscape Architect serving as both moderator and kickoff speaker for this event. Lorren has a longstanding relationship with the olmsteds, having edited the master list of Design Projects which i just mentioned as well as parts of the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, a mere 12 volumes, thousands and thousands of pages. Of the Frederick Law OlmstedNational Historic site as well. And with that, welcome, lauren. Thank you, deedee. And if i can figure out the technology here, im going to pull up the next. My. I might need i made the someone. I mightht need someone. There it is. Doubleclick in the middle. Different than mine. Welcome everyone to session to. Im going to kick off this panel covering a wide over of the National Park service. Followed by scholar and historian who willo do a deeper dive into the work of junior and ending with sam who will talk about the important historic and current work in california. We are going to do this Panel Speaker after speaker to create the most time possible for questions from all of you. During homestead 200, we celebrate the bicentennial so ill begin with three areas in which 19th century area homestead contributed to the development of the National Park service. Some of these you have heard before. First we heard about advocacy for reservations. Feeling it was an important responsibility of government to create for the people and of natural scenery. There to other areas where its enclosed the National Park service as a scale office of the practice of landscapech architecture, the firm developed a site based design process the integrated the architecture and preservation into a single project the transformed into a park. The approach was conserving large scenic areas and design public access. This is in the development of our planet to the creation of the plan as well as detailed studies for individual park facilities. Third, collaboration with architect fox and hh richardson resulted enhanced with architecture preachers inspired by the natural setting. The connection between the firms design and rustic architecture of the service has been well documented for many including linda, harrison and you can carve of the park service designed new heights giving the National Park a distinctive architecture feel and character. Junior was one of the founding members of American Society and its first president. The committee on National Park and National Force and in 1960 devoted to his discussion at the National Park. They called for an organized systematic approach to creating National Parks, but from the medical of preserving natural scenery and using the artist of architecture to successfully design new parks. Homestead wrote about the importance between National Park and national forests. There were already approximately 1400 National Parks and 28 National Monuments but the administration was fractured ase we heard amongst the department of interior and agriculture. Following the meeting, worked collaboratively with legislatures and park advocates to doctor legislation to create National Park service. The contribution and the legislation that created it has been known t today is his statement of purpose. The firm was involved in the National Park in any way including external and internal advocacy and working outside of the National Park service to advocate for new ones. Before the passage and they increase their efforts to expand water supply and valley in the northwest part of the park and was called upon by many to help with this proposed in 1910 to 13, he wrote members of congress and rational leaders including this. The most elegant was a lengthy editorial in the transcript noting potential damage, lack of definitive need for the project would create regarding private interest in public land. The role in the Committee Led to consultation with National ParkService Officials regarding potential of the everglades. Promoting the idea at a time when florida was undergoing a surgeon population and rare wildlife and legislation to investigate has in 1929, simultaneously engaged in the National Park association who felt National Park based solely onro propound scenery. An ecosystem habitat including the everglades unique tropical ecosystem. A trip by automobiles and cruiser, small boat on foot and by blimp and airplane photos were examined hundreds of miles of the e everglades. Strong support in a critical impact on the passage of legislation related to the currentt condition with recommendations for future action. The design and planning with the focus on theth section of the additive hallway part of what was then called hawaii National Park established in 1916. In the Natural Resources and advocated for the preservation of native species and their use in the project. The essential quality of the park and the plan. Rt the first and largest project undertaken in his role as National ParkService Collaborative in a position he held 1941 to 1950 is a Colorado River based recreational surveyl this came at a time in the National Park service needed a representative to work cooperatively with other federal agencies around the complex issues of dam construction, recreation and scenic preservation the i area. This was clearly so committed to the importance of National Park in a great outside energy to t help facilitate. This resulted in a list of recreation sites and working continually through 1942 and 43 covering a vast geographic area. In the inclusion of the park of the National Monument. In 1926, stephen asked for assistance and evaluating the area in grand Canyon Village at the south room. Daniel had taken over the design of the park service remain concerned about expansion of the hotel operated by concessionaire. The role was to assist if and how it could expand without detrimental effect in the facility. The arrival sequence for visitors and preserving the irreplaceable area. He recommended internal situation and keeping new development away and creating conditions that would facilitate recovery of the landscape throughg vegetation. The grand canyon is one of a few parks where junior was involved in land issues related to Indigenous People when this chart as the federal government for boundary adjustments to provide more suitable raising claimed. D. He provided input because he was asked to solely based on the preservation of the hearing but not for this proposal. The firm has the longest relationship with yosemite. He was as early as the 1920s related to conflict and overcrowding and 1928 the first chair of expert advisors. He holds the until 1953 and the committee was to provide guidance and abroad plan to ensure scenic preservation of the National Park service to accommodate increasing indicated the opportunity to address outside criticism selecting a communitysu and junior served is whom he was working with the part system and a geologist said the committeeer several locatios and winter recreation activity to public sanitation to a proposed from the valley floor up to glacier. In lieu of costs and for construction National Park service in the form of letters and reports, times it requires involving specific design for which junior term to the firm in the case of area. Proposed development of a new village was a major activity in the late 1930s particularly with respect to what public uses were and the vehicular circulation and how it would occur. The board advised on minimized dental scarring of the rock cliff to diminish this value often involving this firm. Works on rhode island and began with bar island in 1908 but the work on the motor road imprint on the National Park. 1926, daniel and thomas visited the road work junior was doing at the privacy which led to the motor road. They contacted the office in 1929 regarding opportunity and over the next six years the brothers completed approximately 130 design plans focused primarily on order rose andou rockefeller hope this would sensure protection of the natul beauty of the island where the brothers serve as a neutral party to mediate differences of opinion with the parks superintendent. Youre seeing a theme here. In 1937, the National ParkService Director wrote regarding design of memorial of the newly established Mountain National c park. This is the National Park service and rockefeller was designed and the cap site was selected in and a new design was built in tout provide views of e gap. Construction of memorial began in 1939 and built a storm and fdr and 1940. National park service insulted the firm regarding bureau of public roads plan to increase and appointed as architect to review. Ith the design one of the last projects was a development of a policy on values and National Park by public concern. The public landscape of the National Capital and 1901 appointed to mcmillan, the commercial Park Commission and the National Capital commission, a firm the project the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial and roosevelt island. The cushion between 1910 18 the firm avoided Design Projects under their jurisdiction but did often have recommendations regarding the landscape of the mall and memorial should be treated. It was later designed between 1934 and five during the fdr administration. They asked to serve as a consultant to the Jefferson Memorial and they hired the architect for the memorial and howard completed a majority of the work to have workmanship in the government construction investigation. The senior considered the appropriate treatment and undertaking the d. C. Street and they undertook the efforts to plan, preparing the landscape and olmstead junior and edward clark largely responsible using an overlay method showed a sketch of existing conditions to reveal landscape treatment. Several Historic Sites with the involvement became part of the National Park system that a later date including 1913 design for Washington Square inph Philadelphia Incorporated into independent National Park in 1991. 1914, the mayor of baltimore asked to assist with the design in the vicinity of the monument that included road design but junior evaluated proposals for the treatment of George Washington in 1928 in the National Memorial association in advance of the 1932 bicentennial funded in part by rockefeller junior. Objection to this reconstruction of the whitefield house light on vathe preservation for authenticity and historical record. The home and office became a unit of the National Park service in 1979 and 808 you heard from jake newman, brooklyn and firms advocated for National Park directly and indirectly through National Organizations of which many were accessed as well asct designed. New contributed the most to the entire portfolio and was by no means the only individual the firm established National Appreciation of the importance in sunni preservation and prior understanding of the diversity ofof ecosystem and landscape pis that would make suitable. The importance of preserving this using appropriate methods, the critical need for National Parks was easy distance and populations in the role of Site Specific to Sustainable Design to address safe and appropriate access to National Parks. I think you will hear some overlap in what for me you will see these issues through a variety of lenses so with that, id like to turn it over hello. I am delighted to be here today. To celebrate. Oops, i got to do my thing how are you doing . And i want to thank you for this celebration as well as seniors all year and this particular one. The young girl was early on subsidized to nature and exposure to landscapes and grownup years. From an early age the follows commission in these efforts proved an eager pupil and the duration of the significant amount of time reflecting and building through those consideration. As sharpened as they were by the awareness of the expansion of rapidly, forming the late 19th and early 20th century. A similar chartrt for its servie deep in the mountains and his association as far as experts and the 1894 n95 apprenticeship building estate in north carolina. Experience provided a natural segue into the founding rapidly unfolding field as well as establishing landscape education in america. We lived this transformation everyday with aesthetic orienting and abilities. He to his approach is the embrace of continuously balancing necessity of the saco bernie in 1893, that was the first as youve heard. San francisco. To debate reaching congress in , Rick Olmstead had a Wilderness Place forcefully against the playing of the valley. D it always consideredid himself open to arguments or combining utility and wilderness and was firm in his opinion deviations must be accomplished without harmful experience. A distinctive charm would be injured by the alteration. The last century he wrote on the transcript thatho has shown an enormous increase in appreciation of and resort as a means of recreation and the strain of civilization and the amount is rapidly shrinking in this rash serving time of transition to abandon an essentially defending him once the art as a sample of prosperity. As well is altering that has set this president. That battle is ultimately lost but incentivizing advocates for establishments for National Park. A member of the commission, the shoot over sophistication. Repeated attempts to pass a bill thought establish and create and protect wilderness areas according to safekeeping of National Monument in the acts of 1906. 1911 wrote a lever to propose bureau. Some unmistakable terms of primary purpose for which parks and monuments are set aside. Ultimately it was who provided insights and the words. This would promote and regulate reservations. The historic target and the enjoyment of this manner. Dependent upon the compromise of raising, stemming in plans for force preferably in remote areas. Without intrusion. B by the time the bills passage, the firm was involved with the development. For the western United States. The family consisting of his wife and daughter charlotte moved to the area. Before the move rick spent months of july and august 1921 touring National Parks with members of the National Park service including you somebody. It is being put into practice. From sequoia National Park and the pecking trip. Two years later this association their use of an experienced outsider in this detached reveal and deepest healing about the natural world. The matter how impressive or beautiful, the one thing in which i believe to be the lowest quality of these reservations and no one is free without trespasser inclusion to go in uphill and downhill in any direction they areay today and a way of Property Rights and other restrictions which are built from chaos. Rest the mind and struggles in the web and the freedom to understand and he verified his position on the deeply important fundamentally different functions of National Parks and the American Society in this talk he reiterated his co