California Cultural Resource Preservation Alliance
Description
pulled from site's meta descriptionThe California Cultural Resources Preservation Alliance was formed in 1998 in response to accelerating development, especially in California, and the loss of a number of significant cultural and historic sites. The mission of the CCRPA is to: 1. Protect and preserve cultural resources such as resource areas, sacred areas, historical sites, archaeological sites, burial sites, and American Indian traditional knowledge; 2. Compile lists of archaeological sites or other appropriate cultural resources that are threatened, preserved, or destroyed; 3. Provide peer review and preservation consultation services; 4. Nominate significant archaeological sites or other appropriate cultural resources to the National Register of Historic Places and the California Register of Historic Properties; 5. Access available funding for the preservation of cultural resources; 6. Promote public education and interest in cultural resource preservation; 7. Provide cultural resource preservation input to appropriate State, Federal and local agencies; 8. Establish and promote communication networks for cultural resource preservation; 9. Promote stewardship programs for cultural resource sites; 10. Establish and promote forums for discussion of cultural resource preservation; and 11. Consider appropriate actions to defend and protect significant cultural resources.
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