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Cultural Landscape Lab The Cultural Landscape Laboratory in the UGA College of Environment & Design provides research and learning opportunities for students, faculty, and professional practitioners in the area of cultural landscape management through long-term partnerships with organizations and people who steward nationally-significant cultural landscapes. With a focus on heritage conservation and sustainability, the lab partners with UGA Departments of Geography, History, Horticulture and the Institute of Native American Studies as well as external research partners to explore how our society may best sustain the ecological, social, and cultural systems that constitute America’s most treasured landscapes. During the 2013-14 academic year, Cultural Landscape Lab students served the Blue Ridge Parkway; Cowpens National Battlefield; Stratford Hall Plantation; Fort Sumter National Monument, and Wormsloe State Historical Site.