The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) connects people to places via 4 major programs: What's Out There, Pioneers, Landslide & the Oberlander Prize.
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Watch Now: The "Trumpification" of Washington, D.C. @SkyNews @Stone_SkyNews includes interview with TCLF's Charles Birnbaum youtube.com/watch?v=eBb9BvnQ…
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DEADLINE TODAY - Nominate a threatened cultural landscape resource that reflects & interprets facets of our shared history for inclusion in The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s annual thematic report & exhibition “Landslide 2026: Erasing American History.” tclf.org/nomination-deadline…
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FANTASTIC profile of Oberlander Prize winner Mario Schjetnan; based Mexico City, the celebrated, gloriously charming raconteur tells @weareAGEIST how he stays healthy, happy & inspired in his ninth decade & why retirement isn’t on his to-do list ageist.com/profile/landscape…
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The latest from @ddiamond at The Washington Post: wapo.st/4ohfnE9
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SUPERB & MUST READ from @mollylroberts @lawfare Dispatch: Move Fast and Break Things and Nobody Has Standing - No court can stop President Trump’s ballroom, the government says in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS. lawfaremedia.org/article/dis…
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URGENT – Public Comments Needed by June 15 about the Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C. - Approvals for the project are being improperly fast-tracked - ACT NOW: tclf.org/urgent-public-comme…
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Newly blue Reflecting Pool is latest sign of Trump’s rush to put stamp on D.C. - Excellent new reporting in The Washington Post wapo.st/4enrtIl
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Why is the National Park Service Helping the Administration Evade the Law? tclf.org/why-national-park-s…
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Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building washingtonpost.com/style/pow…
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Free Tours During What's Out There Weekend at Clermont and many other Upper Hudson River locations June 6-7. Register here: lnkd.in/emfV_T-s Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation
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STUNNING. The process for painting the Reflecting Pool was improperly streamlined according to new court filings from The Cultural Landscape Foundation: tclf.org/federally-mandated-…
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Building a triumphal arch would be a “slap in the face to the Lincoln Memorial” according to famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who was one of the most influential figures to shape the National Mall.
Here’s the full story: tclf.org/slap-face-lincoln-m…
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Watch Now—TCLF President CEO Charles Birnbaum speaks with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about the foundation’s suit seeking federal level reviews usually required for sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Watch the full interview here: cnn.com/2026/05/11/politics/…
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation today sued the Department of the Interior over the painting of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tclf.org/cultural-landscape-…
📸 Reflecting Pool, Washington, D.C. - Photo by G. Edward Johnson, 2026
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DEADLINE MAY 8 to submit nomimations for an international @wlandscapearch award - details: awards.worldlandscapearchite…
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Has the administration redesigned the Triumphal Arch? New renderings seen in the "Pledge Agreement" for the Nation Garden of American Heroes [tclf.org/sites/default/files…] do not include the golden statuary atop the arch. That slices 84 feet off the 250-foot-tall structure.
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POWERFUL—this New York Times series of simulations shows the magnitude of the impact on visual and spatial relationships the proposed Arch would have on the nation’s capital: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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An Arch, a Ballroom, and Repainting the Reflecting Pool ... What Next? tclf.org/arch-ballroom-and-r…
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Will the Battle Over the White House Ballroom go to the Supreme Court for "Relief"? tclf.org/will-battle-over-wh…
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New Threatened Landscapes Report Will Focus On Erasure Of American History - thank you @ParksTraveler nationalparkstraveler.org/20… Know of a threatened cultural landscape associated with American history? Nominate it for this report today.
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