SPOTLIGHT ON A PRESERVATION ORGANIZATION: Living Landscape Observer.

The fields of historic preservation and conservation have a linked history. In the decades after World War II, advocates for both movements organized to pass a series of groundbreaking bills in Congress, including the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The unprecedented growth of the period threatened the built and the natural environments, and laws like the NHPA and NEPA provided new and powerful tools to protect cherished landscapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]