Improving and Expanding Site Stewardship: First National Site Stewardship Workshop

 

Improving and Expanding Site Stewardship

The first national site stewardship workshop will be offered in a webinar on October 14 to 15. There is no fee to attend; register in advance at www.sitestewardship.org/workshop.

Site stewardship programs provide training and supervision to citizens who want to help preserve archaeological and historical resources. Volunteer site stewards regularly visit their assigned sites to observe and report on their conditions. Site stewards work at state and federal agencies, at national, state, and local parklands, and at land conservancies. Site stewardship programs protect our heritage resources, increase the effectiveness of archaeologists, and give volunteers opportunities for meaningful experiences.

 Attend this workshop to learn about archaeological site stewardship programs across the nation. Program coordinators and volunteer site stewards will speak about their projects and experiences, their successes and challenges, their goals and accomplishments. This workshop augments the training that volunteer site stewards receive before going into the field, but it is not designed to replace that training.

 For people who work in site stewardship as volunteers or archaeologists, this workshop will provide new, and perhaps provocative, ideas from site stewardship in other States, ideas which may help you become more efficient and effective in your work. For other people, this workshop will tell you how to get involved in preserving the past, and interpreting the lessons it offers.

For more information: https://www.sitestewardship.org/workshop.html 

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AdCZIUCmRSKqrATQutbetA