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Preserve America News |May 2007Mrs. Laura Bush Presents 2007 Preserve America Presidential Awards 
Mrs. Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and Honorary Chair of Preserve America, announced and presented the four 2007 Preserve America Presidential Awards at a White House Rose Garden ceremony on May 9, 2007. This year’s honorees were:
For more detailed information, click here. [Photo in Rose Garden, White House] June 29 Deadline for Next Round of 2007 Preserve America Grant Applications Applications for the second round of Preserve America Grants are now being accepted by the National Park Service with a deadline for submission of June 29, 2007. For information on the second round for 2007 and to obtain information on how to apply for grants visit www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hpg/PreserveAmerica/index.htm. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces First Wildlife Refuge Preserve America Grants 
In March 2007 the first grants from their own Preserve America effort were announced by the
For a list of all projects and more information about what they entail, and more information on the USFWS historic preservation effort, visit www.fws.gov/historicPreservation/preserveAmerica/. Save Our History Awards Ceremony Held with Historic Preservation Caucus 
The History Channel’s Save Our History National Honors Breakfast was hosted in the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in conjunction with the Congressional Historic Preservation Caucus (CHPC) on May 16, 2007. The awards breakfast followed a Save Our History youth summit held the previous day. At the breakfast, Tom Boyenton of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Tashae Grooms of Princeton, Kentucky, (at microphone) gave four recommendations regarding how to better involve youth in historic preservation. Sharing the occasion were (left) Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina and Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, the CHPC co-chairs. The students’ recommendations were:
For more information on Save Our History and the full list of award-winning historic preservation projects honored in this and prior years, visit www.saveourhistory.com and click on the National Honors feature at the left margin of the page. Texas Heritage Trails Grant Funds Heritage Tourism Training 
Last year, the Texas Heritage Trails program received a $147,000 Preserve America Grant to the State Historic Preservation Office. Those funds were to help provide in-depth training for community representatives on the successful development of heritage tourism plans and to develop a new Heritage Tourism Guidebook and a workshop series. To learn more about the success of this innovative program, click here. Many Recent Designation Events 
There have been many Preserve America Community designation events round the country over the past two months with the assistance of partners in the Preserve America initiative. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Regional Director Bob Young presented certificates and presided at five events, at Sandersville, Georgia on April 2, Oxford, Mississippi on April 19, Walker County, Georgia, and Huntsville, Alabama, on April 20, and Warsaw, Kentucky, on May 16. On April 23, HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary Ana Maria Farias recognized the Preserve America Community of El Paso, Texas at a special event. And on May 1, HUD Deputy Regional Director Patricia Hoban-Moore presented a certificate to Wilkes County, North Carolina at a recognition event in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.Young was joined by Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Chairman John L. Nau, III, at Oxford and Walker County. [ACHP Member Julia King presents designation certificate to Calvert County, Maryland. Photo by Kirsti Uunila] 13 New Preserve America Communities Designated 
On April 19, 2007, Mrs. Laura Bush notified 13 new Preserve America Communities via letter that their applications had been accepted. This brought the national total to 486 designated communities nationwide and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These recent communities are Ketchikan, Alaska; Little Rock, Arkansas; Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, and Prowers counties, all in Colorado; Lafayette, Indiana; Saco, Maine; Wyandotte, Michigan; Owego, New York; and, Bellingham, Washington. For a list of communities designated to date, see www.preserveamerica.gov/PAcommunities.html [Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington. Photo by David Scherrer] NOAA Celebrates 200 Years of Heritage 
One of Preserve America’s earliest and most enthusiastic partner agencies, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of its root agency, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson founded the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (as the Survey of the Coast) to provide nautical charts to the maritime community for safe passage into America’s ports and along its extensive coastline. The Weather Bureau was founded 1870 and, one year later, the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries was founded. Individually, these organizations were America's first physical science agency, America's first agency dedicated specifically to the atmospheric sciences, and America's first conservation agency. For more, visit www.celebrating200years.noaa.gov. To learn about NOAA's larger Preserve America efforts, visit preserveamerica.noaa.gov. New Orleans Preserve America Summit Report to be Released Soon At its spring business meeting on May 10, 2007, the ACHP adopted final recommendations from the Preserve America Summit held in New Orleans last October that are intended to advance the national historic preservation program 40 years after passage of the National Historic Preservation Act. The ACHP evaluated more than 60 ideas that emerged during the Summit process. The priority ideas that were adopted will be available in a final report in June 2007. When the report is available it will be posted online on the agency’s Web site, www.achp.gov. |
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