2007 Dana Crawford Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation:
Barbara H. Pahl has been working to ‘save the places where history happened’ since arriving in Colorado in 1979. Originally from Rochester, New York, Barb intended for her stay in Colorado to be temporary. Nearly 30 years later, she's still here, and her work in preservation in Colorado and across the region has resulted in numerous preservation victories.
After working for the Colorado Historical Society, Barb joined the National Trust’s Mountains/Plains Office in 1984 and has been the Regional Director since 1991. She played a key role in the development of the National Trust BARN AGAIN! Program, the Heritage Tourism Program, the initiative to save historic neighborhood schools, and the Public Lands Initiative. She was also instrumental in the effort to develop Denver’s well-known Downtown Historic District and the passage of Colorado’s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit. For her efforts to preserve historic places in Montana, Barb received the Montana Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in 2005
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