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The format of this Guide is designed to provide an integrated approach to the many
aspects of preservation maintenance planning, including detailed inventory and mapping, field
inspections, record keeping, and work procedures that consider the historic character of the
landscape. Information is gathered from a variety of sources and consolidated into a Preserva-
tion Maintenance Plan in a three-ring binder with tabs for each section. This binder can be
added to periodically, thereby accumulating the technical and practical information necessary
for protecting a valuable historic landscape.
This Guide was developed by a team of landscape professionals, including mainte-
nance managers and historic preservationists. Examples are used from the Frederick Law
Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS), which was the prototype park for the Guide.
Many additional examples and photographs are included from other historic properties man-
aged by the National Park Service (NPS) throughout the northeast. At each property, the staff
have adapted the format to meet their site-specific needs.

DEVELOPING A SITE-SPECIFIC
PRESERVATION MAINTENANCE PLAN

A complete Preservation Maintenance Plan contains six sections. It may be best to start with
one or two landscape features that are particularly significant and work through all sections. A
summary of the six sections follows.

1. Defining Objectives outlines issues to
address when determining how this Preservation
Maintenance Plan will support the existing
maintenance program.

2. Areas and Categories of Features
describes a method of delineating areas and
aggregating similar features within a landscape to
help describe the composition of the landscape.

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