The experience led me to ponder what happens when a designed landscape has been neglected, overlooked, or impacted by external forces of development, urbanization or re-wilderness? Using the Biltmore as the backdrop this paper explores issues that exist between landscape preservation, landscape management and cultural landscape fields. I explore some current collaborative approaches to landscape management, and offer different methodology that preservationists may need to employ when attempting to preserve both landmark and landscape in an effort to create condition-specific restoration/ management strategies that yield incremental changes but are sympathetic to the original design intent.