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Alcatraz Island National Historic Landmark Cultural Landscape Report

Alcatraz Island National Historic Landmark Cultural Landscape Report

Prepared by Mundus Bishop, Landscape Architecture and Planning, for the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy; December 2010.

 

Chapter 1: Table of Contents and Introduction (PDF file, 2,100 kb)

 

Chapter 2: Site History
 Chapter 2 A (PDF file, 4,300 kb)
Chapter 2 B (PDF file, 9,100 kb)
Chapter 2 C (PDF file, 6,400 kb)
Chapter 2 D (PDF file, 12,000 kb)
Chapter 2 E (PDF file, 5,700 kb)
Chapter 2 F (PDF file, 300 kb)

 

Chapter 3: Existing Conditions Assessment
 Chapter 3 A (PDF file, 10,000 kb)
Chapter 3 B (PDF file, 6,700 kb)
Chapter 3 C (PDF file, 9,700 kb)
Chapter 3 D (PDF file, 7,700 kb)
Chapter 3 E (PDF file, 8,000 kb)
Chapter 3 F (PDF file, 7,600 kb)
Chapter 3 G (PDF file, 7,900 kb)
Chapter 3 H (PDF file, 8,400 kb)
Chapter 3 I (PDF file, 5,600 kb)
Chapter 3 J (PDF file, 3,500 kb)
Chapter 3 K (PDF file, 7,100 kb)
Chapter 3 L (PDF file, 7,900 kb)
Chapter 3 M (PDF file, 5,400 kb)

 

Chapter 4: Landscape Analysis
 Chapter 4 A (PDF file, 7,000 kb)
Chapter 4 B (PDF file, 1,700 kb)
Chapter 4 C (PDF file, 8,800 kb)
Chapter 4 D (PDF file, 3,200 kb)
Chapter 4 E (PDF file, 3,500 kb)
Chapter 4 F (PDF file, 3,100 kb)
Chapter 4 G (PDF file, 8,500 kb)
Chapter 4 H (PDF file, 2,500 kb)
Chapter 4 I (PDF file, 3,900 kb)
Chapter 4 J (PDF file, 3,400 kb)
Chapter 4 K (PDF file, 6,800 kb)

 

Chapter 5: Management Issues (PDF file, 1,000 kb)

 

Chapter 6: Treatment Recommendations
 Chapter 6 A (PDF file, 1,600 kb)
Chapter 6 B (PDF file, 18,000 kb)
Chapter 6 C (PDF file, 3,000 kb)
Chapter 6 D (PDF file, 17,500 kb)
Chapter 6 E (PDF file, 6,800 kb)
Chapter 6 F (PDF file, 8,200 kb)
Chapter 6 G (PDF file, 5,600 kb)
Chapter 6 H (PDF file, 6,800 kb)
Chapter 6 I (PDF file, 9,500 kb)
Chapter 6 J (PDF file, 17,000 kb)

 

Chapter 7: Implementation Strategy (PDF file, 215 kb)

 

Chapter 8: Appendices and Bibliography (PDF file, 3,600 kb)

Did You Know?

Horseshoe Cove at Fort Baker

During World War II, Fort Baker’s Horseshoe Cove was home to the Mine Planting Depot, where soldiers loaded dynamite into electrically-triggered mines that were then arranged in the water just outside the Golden Gate Bridge.