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This year's sole addition to the roster of AICP National Planning Landmarks and Pioneers, the Niagara Reservation, is also one of the nation's-and the world's-outstanding landscape treasures. It's recognized today as a National Historic Landmark.
In the words of the nomination by three members of APA's New York Upstate Chapter, "the formation of the reservation marked a milestone in the public's awareness to protect significant natural resources." The nominators are former chapter president Marcia Kees; Robert Reinhardt, planning director for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; and chapter president Michael Krasner, who died suddenly in early February.
In 1885, the reservation became a state park, the oldest in the country. Its approximately 400 acres encompass Niagara Falls, the gorge, and the adjacent escarpment. The park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, attracts some seven million visitors a year from all over the world.
It could have...