Cultural Resource Laws and Practice

Thomas F. King has worked in historic preservation since the mid-1960s as an academic, a contractor, and a government official.

Tom King has played a unique role in CRM as one of the architects of the original Section 106 regulations and the discipline’s most articulate explicator and critic. This purportedly final edition has updated regulatory detail, recent examples, and sharpened critique. This book is essential reading for those interested in historic preservation including CRM practitioners and civil servants. One hopes that the latter might actually heed King’s well-reasoned rejoinders for the critical need to reform the regulation and management of our nation’s cultural resources.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Fourth EditionList of Figures and TableChapter 1 Cultural Resource Management: Why Is It? What Is It? Who Does It?Chapter 2 Cultural Resources in the Broadest Sense: Practice Under the National Environmental Policy ActChapter 3 Historic Properties as Cultural Resources: The National Register of Historic PlacesChapter 4 Managing Impacts on Historic Properties: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation ActChapter 5 More About Historic PlacesChapter 6 Cultural Resources in, of, and from the LandChapter 7 “Intangible” and Portable Cultural ResourcesChapter 8 Comprehensive CRM?Chapter 9 Working with CRMAppendix 1 Acronyms, Abbreviations, and GlossaryAppendix 2 Frequently Used TermsAppendix 3 Laws, Executive Orders, and RegulationsAppendix 4 Model Section 106 Memorandum of AgreementAppendix 5 Model NAGPRA Plan of ActionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author