groves. Individual or windbreak groves of trees, both at surviving ranches as 

 well as vanished ones, even though considered exotics (such as eucalyptus), 

 should be considered as historic resources and be preserved. 



2. Further Study: Cultural Landscape Report 



The Olema Valley section of Golden Gate National Recreation Area 

 possesses one of the outstanding cultural landscapes within the National Park 

 System. The Department of the Interior defines a rural historic landscape as: 



a geographic area that historically has been used by 

 people, or shaped or modified by human activity, 

 occupancy, or intervention, and that possesses a 

 significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of 

 areas of land use, vegetation, buildings and structures, 

 roads and waterways, and natural features. 



These former dairy ranches exhibit integrity in all eleven landscape 

 characteristics outlined by the National Register of Historic Places as essential 

 features to a rural historic landscape: land use and activities; patterns of spatial 

 organization; response to natural environment; cultural traditions; circulation 

 networks; boundary demarcations; vegetation related to land use; buildings, 

 structures, and objects; clusters; archeological sites; and small-scale elements. 235 



The park's Statement for Management (1992) recommends cultural 

 landscape studies for many areas of the park, including the Olema Valley: 



Although relatively extensive attention has been paid 

 to the historic structures of the park, its historic 

 landscape values remain largely unsurveyed and 

 unevaluated. This is primarily due to the fact that a 

 full appreciation and understanding of cultural 

 landscape values has only recently found its way into 

 National Park Service management practices. 



. . . The entire park bears the evidence of more than 



235 See National Register Bulletin Number 30, "Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting 

 Rural Historic Landscapes," published by the U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park 

 Service, Interagency Resources Division. 



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