Purpose:

Each year the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School attracts a range of participants, from practicing cultural resource professionals to undergraduate and graduate students, to novices with little background in the field but who possess a love for heritage and a desire to learn.  The University of Oregon's Historic Preservation Program developed this Field School to provide participants with the opportunity to experience preservation firsthand. Incoming graduate students are required to enroll for at least one session as part of their graduation requirements.

The field school is intended for anyone interested in working in a hands-on environment, to learn about preservation by doing it, and interested in seeing a spectacular part of the United States. The typical class various in age, skill-background, and interest, but the common thread is always fun and learning. Many participants have used the field school to launch into historic preservation, and many graduates of the University of Oregon's program got their start at the Pacific Northwest Field School.

The field school is normally held during mid-August to mid-September, in repeatable one-week sessions. Each of the repeatable one-week sessions will have a different focus and present opportunities to learn different skills, though certain themes run throughout the entire program. Sessions will balance seminars, tours of the local area, and hands-on experience in a range of preservation techniques.

Field School Faculty:

Sessions will be led by one or more professionals specializing in the techniques and materials involved. Faculty come from across the Northwest and participate, as well as teach, in the Field School. Past faculty at The Pacific Northwest Field School have come from the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Department of Parks & Recreation, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, Washington State Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation, and the professional community.

The following is a preliminary list of the primary instructors for the Field School:

• Donald Peting is the founding Director of the PNW Preservation Field School summer programs and an Emeritus Architecture Professor at the University of Oregon. Still teaching part time, his responsibilities include architectural design, preservation technology, and structures. He maintains a consulting practice that focuses on historic architecture and his research interests include historic building technologies, watermills, windmills, and seismic retro-fitting of historic structures.
  
• John Platz is a restoration carpenter specializing in teaching traditional tool usage, preservation venues, wood conservation, furniture construction and restoration, timber-frame, log and dimensional material construction.  He has combined his engineering background with forty plus years of building construction, furniture construction and structure preservation as co-owner of Pilgrim’s Progress Preservation Services. Before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service, Platz was awarded master performer designation in architecture, civil engineering and historic preservation. While in the Forest Service, he organized and managed the first USFS national preservation team, which in turn won the Oregon Governor's Award for excellence in preservation training and craft. John has served as the hands-on craft instructor for the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School in all but two years since the program has existed and was a co-organizer of the first PNWFS.
  
• Fred Walters is an award winning historical architect and architectural conservator in Cambridge, Idaho. He holds architecture licenses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. His work includes building condition assessment and evaluation of over 240 buildings, as well as design and construction services for a wide variety of preservation projects.  Walters has been an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, teaching courses in Preservation Technology and Condition Assessments. He has been an active member of the field school since 1999.
  
• Michael Hayden has worked as a mason for more than 27 years and has experience with brick, cinder block and various kinds of stone, both natural (his favorite) and synthetic. He worked on the restoration of the charcoal kilns in Gilmore, Idaho and on the historic Stanrod House here in Pocatello.  Hayden spent 5 weeks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon helping with the construction of the stone waste treatment facility at Bright Angel Campground and more than a year during the 1990's working on a 21,000 square foot stone structure in the Jackson Hole area as well as many more projects both large and small. He is looking forward to helping at the Pacific Northwest Field School.
  
• Leland Roth is an Architectural History Proffessor at the University of Oregon.  Books authored include: A Concise History of American Architecture, American Architecture: A History, and McKim, Mead & White, Architects.  Professor Roth is also the editor of  America Builds and co-editor of Architecture in Colonial America. Other past faculty at the Field School have come from the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and the professional community.

Tuition and Credit:

Field School participants can earn two graduate or undergraduate level credits from the University of Oregon for each repeatable one-week session,  Grading is on a pass/no pass basis.  Tuition costs are included in the field school fee, though participants will pay the same fee regardless of whether they wish to receive college credit.  Please send an academic transcript and letter of recommendation with your application if you wish to receive credit.

Field School Scholarships:

Financial assistance is available through two scholarships.  Scholarship funds will only be disbursed to those participants who are taking the session(s) for academic credit.

The Pilgrim's Progress Preservation Services Student Scholarship Fund covers the expense of one Field School week. Preference will be given, but is not limited to, individuals who are working with a not-for-profit organization who without funding assistance would not be able to attend the Field School. This award covers tuition for one week of field school.

The Director's Student Scholarship is available, but not limited to, individuals planning a career in the preservation field, who without this funding assistanace may not be able to attend the Field School.  The recipient must be taking the Field School session(s) for academic credit.  The award covers tuition for one field school week and additional travel expenses.   

The deadline for the 2007 scholarship submissions has already passed.

Please direct any inquires regarding the scholarships to the Field School GAF.

Field School Sponsors:

The Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School would not be possible without the continued support of federal, state, and local agencies. Collaborating sponsors for the 2006 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School include:

• University of Oregon
• National Park Service
• Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation
• Idaho State Historical Society
• Oregon Parks & Recreation Department
• Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
• Oregon State University
• Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission
• Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) and the State Historic Preservation Office joined up to form the first partnership and they continue to be important sponsors in the Field School. The Columbia Cascade Support Office of the National Park Service became the second sponsor and is providing funding as well as faculty members and technical assistance for the rehab projects. The University of Oregon continues to assist with funding, field school faculty, on-site coordination, and academic credit for participants.

Historic Preservation Program
School of Architecture & Allied Arts
5233 Univeristy of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5233

Field School Assisant/GAF
Email: pnwfs@uoregon.edu
Office: 541-346-2089
Fax: 541-346-3626

Field School Director
Don Peting, Professor Emeritus
Email: peting@uoregon.edu
Office 541.346.2993
Mobile: 541.954.9248