Land Use History Project at Fort Hunter Liggett, Monterey County Project Manager: Clinton Blount Date: 1997 - 2001 Albion is currently conducting an oral history program at Fort Hunter Liggett, a 165,000-acre Army training facility in southern Monterey County, California. The project includes design of an integrated database to manage information from oral testimony and other data sources such as personal archives, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and military documents. The oral history project focuses on land use history and identifiable changes in the landscape, particularly those resulting from ranching (1780-1940), water development (beginning in the late 18th century), and U.S. Army training and experimentation (1940-present). The project makes use of a number of historical sources to identify changes in the land, especially aerial photographs, dating from 1929, that indicate premilitary (that is, pre-1940) land uses and disturbances. This aerial imagery combined with oral testimony and other documentary sources reveals patterns of intensive use that have had a lasting effect on the landscape. Return to "Oral Histories."
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