Cultural Resources Comprehensive Strategies Priority Resource Comprehensive Activity, by Sequence (number Activity Category: Sequencing In PMIS? If yes, Estimated Duration Cost Likely Funding Source Priority Strategy activities, 1., 2., 3.) A = Base Knowledge, B note PMIS # (High, = Management and Medium, Mitigation, low) C = Monitoring Strategy 3: Document 1. Record trends using historic A, C 2 Ongoing 10,000 ONPS Medium and monitor trends photos and collect current and changes in views photo points to compare and vistas over time photography over time. 2. Conduct interviews with park visitors. 3. Conduct mapping activities. 4. Conduct aerial photography activities and postcards Strategy 4: Maintain 1. Perform routine maintenance B nondependent Ongoing (check) Base (ONPS) Medium designed access to to vegetation to maintain overlooks views / vistas / overlooks 2. Include views and vistas in A 1 1 year (see costs associated Base High vegetation management plan with plans) and/or watershed management plan 3. Include one question in A 2 visitor use survey related to views and vistas experience 4. Conduct panoramic viewshed A, C 3 Ongoing 10,000 ONPS High sight line monitoring photo – points B 4 3–4 years 35,000 ONPS High 5. Develop interpretive for certain views and vistas Update historical 1. Complete and submit final A 1 Underway 0 High All Cultural Resources research and national register nomination for documentation of Catoctin Mountain Park to the Catoctin Mountain Keeper of the National Register Park’s historic context of Historic Places for listing and historiography in support of important cultural resource types A 40,000 2. Prepare historic resource on OSS history at Camp Greentop to support potential ethnographic resources associated with OSS groups, as well as OSS artifacts in the museum collection and archives, or possibly in yet-to- be-discovered archeological sites 3. Update the park’s A 40,000 administrative history, completed in 1986 A 10,000 4. Incorporate new historical information gleaned from cultural resources documentation into park interpretive programs
Cultural Resources Comprehensive Strategies Priority Resource Comprehensive Strategy Activity, by Sequence (number activities, 1., 2., 3.) Activity Category: A = Base Knowledge, B = Management and Mitigation, C = Monitoring Sequencing In PMIS? If yes, note PMIS # Estimated Duration Cost Likely Funding Source Priority (High, Medium, low) Strategy 3: Document and monitor trends and changes in views and vistas over time 1. Record trends using historic photos and collect current photo points to compare photography over time. 2. Conduct interviews with park visitors. 3. Conduct mapping activities. 4. Conduct aerial photography activities and postcards A, C 2 Ongoing 10,000 ONPS Medium Strategy 4: Maintain designed access to overlooks 1. Perform routine maintenance to vegetation to maintain views / vistas / overlooks B nondependent Ongoing (check) Base (ONPS) Medium 2. Include views and vistas in vegetation management plan and/or watershed management plan A 1 1 year (see costs associated with plans) Base High 3. Include one question in visitor use survey related to views and vistas experience A 2 4. Conduct panoramic viewshed sight line monitoring – photo points A, C 3 Ongoing 10,000 ONPS High 5. Develop interpretive for certain views and vistas B 4 3–4 years 35,000 ONPS High All Cultural Resources Update historical research and documentation of Catoctin Mountain Park’s historic context and historiography in support of important cultural resource types 1. Complete and submit final national register nomination for Catoctin Mountain Park to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places for listing A 1 Underway 0 High 2. Prepare historic resource on OSS history at Camp Greentop to support potential ethnographic resources associated with OSS groups, as well as OSS artifacts in the museum collection and archives, or possibly in yet-to- be-discovered archeological sites A 40,000 3. Update the park’s administrative history, completed in 1986 A 40,000 4. Incorporate new historical information gleaned from cultural resources documentation into park interpretive programs A 10,000
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