ABSTRACT
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) tries hard to be a rational system that prevents the unconsidered destruction of cultural resources and that leads to reasoned decisions for treatments of these resources that are in the public interest. It sometimes involves strategic thinking and the deliberate shaping of its own future, and all of those together make it a planning process. National Register criteria and the Council's opportunity to comment would become the seeds of a planning process. The new Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, and the nascent State Historic Preservation Officer network labored under great pressure with little guidance. By 1969, a few began to use a term "The New Preservation" to describe a similar interrelationship between the great places of the "honor roll" and the expanded National Register as the cultural counterpart of ecosystem.
