Landscape preservation and biodiversity planning : the Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project and beyond

• Main Author: Yaquinto, Robert Giacomo
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arizona; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Biodiversity planning; Friends of Tucson's Birthplace; Heritage Orchard; Historic preservation; Jesús García; Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project; Landscape; Landscape preservation; Mission garden; Old Sturbridge Village; Old World Wisconsin; Tucson Botanical Gardens; Tumacácori National Historical Park; Tucson
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26216

This report argues that historic landscape preservation efforts need to embrace biodiversity planning. Historic landscape preservation sites need to develop biodiversity plans because they are uniquely qualified to provide the continuous monitoring that successful biodiversity planning requires. Not only will biodiversity monitoring at various historic landscape sites contribute to a nationwide collection of biodiversity planning data, but it will also provide a rich source of information that can be presented to draw a wider audience into the biodiversity discussion. After considering three precedents: Old Sturbridge Village, Old World Wisconsin, and Tucson Botanical Gardens, the report focuses on the Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project and its real and potential impacts on biodiversity planning in southern Arizona and more broadly. Finally, the report considers how seed libraries and seed swaps might serve a similar purpose in other parts of the country. === text