Willamette Valley History Series: Oregon's Cultural Landscapes

Name: Willamette Valley History Series: Oregon's Cultural Landscapes
Start: 2025-09-24T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-24T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 3911 Village Center Dr SE, Salem, OR, United States, Oregon 97302

Schedule

Wed Sep 24 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

3911 Village Center Dr SE, Salem, OR, United States, Oregon 97302 | Salem, OR

Event page: https://www.slcsalem.org/events/wvhs-4
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The SLC’s mission is to provide a unique living laboratory that educates and encourages sustainable practices in daily life, and we believe that understanding the history of this living laboratory is important to achieving our mission.
The fourth presentation in this series is "Oregon’s Cultural Landscapes: How to Better Understand and Protect These Special Places," presented by Laurie Matthews, M.A., Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture & Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon.
Laurie Matthews, FASLA, is a nationally recognized expert in cultural landscapes. She will share her insights on some of Oregon’s diverse cultural landscapes focusing on what opportunities they invite and what challenges they present, contextualizing them within the broader framework of the practice of cultural landscape preservation and management in the US and internationally.
Laurie is Director of Preservation Planning + Design at MIG and an adjunct professor with University of Oregon’s landscape architecture and historic preservation departments. Her exceptional accomplishments and contributions to the field of landscape architecture have earned her the designation of Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA). Her work on cultural landscapes helps maintain and manage some of the most iconic historic places in the country such as Yosemite National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Crater Lake National Park. She is fascinated by the complexities and stories associated with landscapes and the history they reveal, and her work is guided by the principle that landscape preservation requires managing rather than halting change. Laurie has an M.L.A. and B.L.A. from the University of Oregon, a B.A. from Lewis & Clark College, is former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects Oregon chapter and serves on the board of Restore Oregon.
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