Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is located on 643 acres, near the town of Woodstock, which is in Windsor County, Vermont, USA. The park preserves the site where Frederick Billings established a managed forest and a progressive dairy farm. The name honors Billings and the other owners of the property: George Perkins Marsh and Laurence and Mary French Rockefeller. The Rockefellers transferred the property to the federal government in 1992. It is the only unit of the United States National Park System in Vermont (except for the Appalachian Trail). Visitors can take guided tours of the 19th century George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home, which includes displays of landscape paintings, highlighting the influence painting and photography had on the conservation movement. The gardens have also been restored. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park was awarded the first Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification of a United States national park by the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program in August 2005. This certification made Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller only the second United States federal land to receive such certification for sustainable forest management. Site is considered a Cultural Landscape and is either an Historic site, Historic designed landscape, Historic vernacular landscape, Ethnographic landscape

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AT Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (MBRNHP) the Mount Tom Forest is one of the earliest examples of planned and managed reforestation int the united States. The Forest illustrates more than o a century of stewardship, from the earliest scientific silvicultural practices borrowed from nineteenth-century Europe to contemporary practices of sustainable forest management. When Mount Tom Forest was gifted to create MBRNHP, the National Park Service made a commitment to continue the tradition of careful, sustainable forest management practiced by the Billings and Rockefeller families. In 2002, the park, including its forest, was the pilot for a new documentation tool, the Historic American Land Survey. MBRNHP is currently developing a Forest Management Plan with a long-term vision for the future of the Mount Tom Forest. The Plan will guide forest practices, historic preservation, natural resource protection, recreation, education and interpretation. A cultural landscape report and other documentation tools will inform the forest management plan. Working with several universities, consulting foresters, NPS Conservation Study Institue and NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, the National Park Service is bringing the perspectives of many diverse disciplines to the planning process.

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