A Future for Cultural Resource Management?

What is it about?

This is the final chapter in my 2011 edited "Companion to Cultural Resource Management." It expresses my own disappointment -- based on some 50 years practice -- in what cultural resource management has become and failed to become, and offers some ideas about how the field MIGHT be improved to realize its generally failed potential.

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Why is it important?

The article is not a particularly hopeful or happy one, but it attempts to portray the situation honestly -- we have established a quasi-profession that essentially enriches its members and facilitates the destruction of the cultural environment at the expense of the public. An alternative future is possible, in which the public interest in the cultural environment is realized instead of being buried in esoteric procedures and practices.