The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a non-profit research organization dedicated to cataloging and understanding human impacts on the natural landscape. It operates 5 permanent sites for research and exhibitions across the US, and maintains a database documenting various man-made sites ranging from infrastructure to industrial ruins. The organization also aims to create the American Land Museum, a network of landscape exhibition sites across the US that use the landscape itself to exhibit contemporary portraits of the nation.

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2. The CLUIis a non-profit research organization dedicated to understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the Earth’s surface. It exists primarily to catalogue industrial ruins and the hidden places that nonetheless greatly impact our daily lives. The CLUI does not seek to bring nature closer, but to explore human interventions in natural landscape.

4. a satellite office in the graying factory town of Troy, New York on the Hudson River

5. Abandoned Air-Force base on the salts flats of Wendover, Nevada

6. An office housed in an old junk yard in the industrial fringes of Houston

13. CLUI created and maintains the LAND USE DATABASE that documents the man-made environment. Consists of sites across the United States ranging from the mundane (tunnels, bridges) to the notorious (Alcatraz, Three Mile Island) to the bizarre (the Amazing Maize Maze, the Big Muskie Coal Scoop Bucket).

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15. the American Land Museum is a network of landscape exhibition sites being developed across the United States The primary “exhibit” at each location is the immediate landscape of the location itself. Collectively the individual exhibit sites comprise the American Land Museum. The museum creates a dynamic contemporary portrait of the nation, a portrait composed of the national landscape itself.

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20. The Army Corps of Engineers' Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model