America the Beautiful:

Government and regulatory decision makers often ignore laws that require them to value natural beauty and scenic vistas. This ground breaking federal policy study exposes this alarming trend in seven federal laws relating to scenic conservation, demonstrating how some "preservation" laws do more harm than food to visual resources. the study also makes more than 30 recommendations for how citizens and officials can work to improve these laws. Scenic America, 2001. 106 pages.

Price: $20

Fighting Billboard Blight:

This document is an important tool for anyone concerned about the proliferation of billboards. Fighting Billboard Blight is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to help you develop a campaign to fight this litter-on-a-stick in you state and in your own community. Reclaiming the beauty of your community from the billboard operators won't be easy. But, with hard work and a good plan, you can win and add your community to the growing list of pro-beauty places with tough billboard controls. Fighting Billboard Blight is the tool you need. Scenic America, 1999. 85 pages.

Price: $20

Tree Conservation Ordinances: Land Use Regulations Go Green

This comprehensive guidebook is designed to help communities plan and implement a successful tree conservation ordinance. Discusses valuation of trees, how to write an effective ordinance, and common enforcement mistakes. C. Duerksen, American Planning Association, 1993. 110 pages.

Price: $34

This groundbreaking study demonstrated how the HBA has failed to meets its intended purpose and actually encourages and subsidizes billboard blight all across the country. Scenic America, 1997. 50 pages.

Price: $10

A compendium of 45 case studies representing a variety of innovative designs and methods to save America's cherished visual environment. In 2002, Scenic America sent out an open call for submissions to a wide range of private firms, universities, businesses, and governments throughout the country. A prestigious selection panel reviewed the submissions and selected the best among them to include on this multimedia CD-ROM. The CD includes video clips, maps and case studies as well as a full color, 12-page booklet outlining the project. Scenic America, 2004.

Price: $20

Getting it Right in the Right-of-Way:

Scenic America has been a leader for many years in promotion context-sensitive highway design. Getting it Right in the Right-of-Way includes information on community involvement in transportation planning, advises citizens on planning strategies for working with state highway engineers, provides basics road design vocabulary and information on federal laws that support context sensitive solutions, and gives helpful case studies. Scenic America, 2000. 24 pages.

Price: $8

Scenic Easements: A Tool to Conserve America the Beautiful

Intended to promote scenic conservation by encouraging the routine inclusion of scenic protection in general purpose conservation easements, as well as the establishment of stand-alone scenic easements. With this publication, Scenic America hopes to ensure that the best possible information on scenic protection though easements is available to landowners; land trusts; and federal, state, and local agencies. To this end, the Scenic Easements Action Guide provides a history of their use, reviews types of scenic resources currently protected by easements, and discusses special considerations for drafting scenic easements. NOTE: Scenic Easements: A Tool to Conserve America the Beautiful is not intended to be a comprehensive guide on technical aspects of conservation easements. Readers who wish to draft any type of easement should consult the Conservation Easement Handbook (2nd edition, 2005) and other resources available from the Land Trust Alliance (www.lta.org) and the Trust for Public Land (www.tpl.org). Scenic America, 2005. 20 pages.

Price: $8

Power to the People:

Electric power generation and telecommunications are multi-billion dollar industries supported by an unsightly network of more that 2 million miles of electrical wires, 190 million telecommunications lines, and over 100 million utility poles. What can communities so to mitigate the visual impact of overhead utilities? Power to the People gives communities the tools and information they need to prepare a comprehensive utility relocation plan, including options for reducing the visual impact of utilities, such as underground burial, wire relocation, and utility camouflaging, as well as the pros and cons of each option. Power to the People also examines federal, state, and local funding sources for utility relocation projects and uses case studies from around the country to illustrate various utility relocation strategies. Scenic America, 2001. 20 pages.

Price: $8

Taming Wireless Telecommunications Towers

There's one aspect of the growing world of wireless telecommunication causing widespread concern amount citizens, local officials, planners, and others: the adverse visual impact of very tall towers with support wireless transmitters. The rapid growth of these towers signals a major change in communications in the past few years - and a sign that more change is on the way. This Action Guide provides citizens, policymakers, and planners with background and advice on dealing with wireless telecommunications facilities through the planning and legislative process. Scenic America, 2001. 20 pages.

Price: $8