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Native American perceptions of cultural landscapes are often informed by shared concepts that envision large-scale cultural geographies. As a result, scales for cultural landscape assessments can range from the relatively local to regional. The appropriate scale of assessment in any given situation is sometimes not readily apparent to rights-of-way managers, to land-managing agencies, or to cultural resource professionals. This uncertainty can be a particular problem for linear projects, which can traverse a variety of potential cultural landscapes of differing magnitudes. This paper focuses on a very large cultural landscape associated with the Xam Kwatcan trail system in the desert southwest. In all, this landscape...
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We completed nine focus groups on perceptions of powerline right-of-way (ROW) management issues. In these groups we interviewed eastern Tennessee residents to determine the nature and range of knowledge and views regarding vegetation management, ROWs as wildlife habitat, and ROW aesthetics. We also conducted an extensive literature review to adduce other pertinent data. Participants in focus groups exhibited a wide range of attitudes and beliefs about the interview topics. Some associated wildlife habitat with areas devoid of humans ("wilderness" or "sanctuary"), whereas others thought of habitat as close as "my backyard." A majority referred to habitat in relatively objective terms such as "food, water, and cover"...
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