Reforesting Fort Ord
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Title
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Reforesting Fort Ord
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Description
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This thesis examines the potential for the conservation of Monterey pine biodiversity through the active planting of an experimental forest in the Impact Area of Fort Ord: a former US military firing range soon to become part of a national monument. It confronts the delicate balance between passive ecosystem restoration and destructive total-remediation of compromised landscapes. Through choreographing munitions disposal with planting and tactical access to establish a human-assisted forest, the thesis challenges the colonial freeze-frame of what species can be “native” and where. In doing so, it provides a framework for re-connecting communities to locked-up public lands, and envisions how experimental forests, designed landscapes, and collaborative management can cultivate identity and social investment in a newly designated urban national monument. Here is a place once forbidden to people and to pines, where finally there is a possibility for more than preservation.
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Creator
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Kelly, Charles James
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Subject
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ecosystem restoration
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fort ord
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monterey
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radiata
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reforestation
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remediation
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Landscape architecture
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Environmental management
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Contributor
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Whitesides, Amy
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Date
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2024-05-21T12:20:20Z
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2024
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2024-05-17
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2024
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2024-05-21T12:20:20Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Kelly, Charles James. 2024. Reforesting Fort Ord. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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31299222
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37378633
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Language
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en