The National Park Service (NPS) administers the planning and operation of the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS), which includes: selecting and approving landscapes for documentation, standardizing formats and developing guidelines for recording landscapes, catalogs and/or publishing the information when appropriate.
The Library of Congress accepts and preserves HALS documents, furnishes reproductions of material, and makes records available to NPS.
The ASLA Professional Practice department works with ASLA’s Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network (HP PPN) to provide advice on identifying, selecting, and documenting historical landscapes. The ASLA HP PPN, through its HALS Subcommittee, oversees the nationwide identification of historic landscapes that merit HALS documentation.
HALS Subcommittee:
Allison Crosbie, ASLA, Co-Chair / Co-Coordinator
Lincoln Lewis, Student ASLA, Co-Chair / Co-Coordinator
Jeff Caster, FASLA
Gregory De Vries, ASLA
Christine Donhardt, ASLA
David Driapsa, FASLA
Kimball Erdman
Helen Erickson, ASLA
Andrea Gaffney, ASLA
Cari Goetcheus
Scott Keyes
Birgit Kibelka, ASLA
Doug Nelson, ASLA
Elena Pascarella, ASLA
Alex Priest, ASLA
Christa Schaefer, ASLA
Graham Sones, ASLA
Christopher Stevens, ASLA
Jenn Thomas, ASLA
Jacob Torkelson
Carol J. H. Yetken, ASLA
Andrea Weber, ASLA
See the ASLA HALS Guidelines for more information about the HALS liaisons, the HALS coordinator, and the HALS subcommittee. Anyone with comments or interest in volunteering or assisting with HALS, please email propractice@asla.org.