Department of Labor: Midwest Flood Recovery Assistance – Information about National Emergency Grants (NEGs), employment, cleanup, and recovery.
FEMA Midwest Flood Response – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has compiled information on flood recovery.
Flooding and Historic Buildings Technical Advice Note 2004
Heritage Emergency National Task Force – A partnership of 41 national service organizations and [...]

Dealing with Storm-Damaged Trees in the Landscape
How to Recognize Hazardous Defects in Trees
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In response to the recent flooding in the Midwest and fires in California, NCPTT’s Sean Clifford and Mary Striegel continue to update the NCPTT web pages on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

NCPTT hosted a MayDay Event “Preparing You for the Next Disaster” in Natchitoches, La.

NCPTT received a final report from a PTT Grants project, “Protocol for Emergency Washing, Drying, and Sterilization of Historically Significant Books” by the University of Utah’s Marriott Library.

NCPTT’s Andy Ferrell recently participated in the first Louisiana Flood Protection and Ecosystem Restoration Professional Development Program.

There are steps you can take to prepare a historic structure for natural disasters. NCPTT’s architecture and engineering program updates information it presented at the recent Historic Natchez Conference.

A new preservation technique involving the use of supercritical fluids to dry waterlogged archaeological wood will be investigated and compared to current preservation treatments.

Hurricane Katrina and its massive destruction drew attention to the commonplace markers on the landscape that create sense of place for a community.

The experience in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita underscored the limitations in current approaches for documenting and assessing heritage resources in a postdisaster context.

With the historic preservation expertise of the NCPTT and the proximity of the Center to the Gulf Coast, the Center was involved in the cultural resource response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

NCPTT sponsored the colloquium “Wind, Flood and Heritage Recovery” as part of the APTI pre-conference activities.

Every year, hundreds of museums, libraries, archives and historic sites across the country experience emergencies large and small. In most cases, staff and volunteers are unprepared.

Andy Ferrell once again represented NCPTT at Saving Places 2006, the annual conference of Colorado Preservation, Inc.

NCPTT worked in conjunction with the American Institute for Conservation to produce the workshop series, “After the Storm: Recovery of Wet Collections,” which was held in March.

Within days of Katrina, NCPTT was helping FEMA with its damage survey.
At FEMA’s request, the Center took the lead to produce a Rapid Building and
Site Condition Assessment tool and database that FEMA could use to evaluate
flood-damaged historic buildings in New Orleans and surrounding parishes.
Rapid Cemetery Condition Assessment and Detailed Building and Site Condition
Assessment forms and [...]

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated major portions of the Gulf Coast.