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HALS NOW / BSLA H i s t o ric A mer ican L ands cap e s Sur vey documents and makes records In recent decades, the concept of historic preservation available to the public. has grown beyond protecting a single building or urban district to include larger landscapes that have regional and Historic landscapes vary in size from national significance. In response to this growing interest, small gardens to several thousand-acre the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) national parks. In character they range worked with the National Park Service (NPS) to create a from designed to vernacular, rural to national program. In October 2000, NPS established the urban, and Historic American Landscapes t h e B SLA H A LS C ommi t t ee agricultural Survey (HALS) to document to industrial historic landscapes in the US (and h a s submi t t ed th e sh or t spaces. its territories) to serve as tangible evidence of our nation’s heritage fo rm for M oun t G reyloc k. Vegetable patches, and development. estate gardens, cemeteries, farms, quarries, nuclear test sites, suburbs, In early 2001, ASLA, NPS, and the Library of Congress and abandoned settlements all may be created a framework of cooperation. In 2010, they signed considered historic landscapes. Like its a new Tripartite Agreement making HALS a permanent sister programs, the Historic American federal program. NPS administers the planning and Buildings Survey and the Historic operation of HALS, standardizes formats and develops American Engineering Record, guidelines for recording landscapes, and catalogs and/ HALS produces written and graphic or publishes the information. ASLA provides professional records of interest to educators, land guidance and technical advice for the program through managers, and preservation planners, its Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network. as well as the general public. The Library of Congress accepts and preserves HALS Greenfield Community College S HA D L EY A S S O C IAT E S LA N D S CA P E A R C H IT E CT S / S IT E P LA N N I N G C O N S U LTA NT S BSA Honor Award for Accessible Design in Public Architecture, Architecture by Gensler Robert Benson Photography Boston Society of Landscape Architects Fieldbook 39