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Acronym List...... 4

Executive Summary of Fiscal Year 2017...... 6

Administration and Staffing...... 9 Organization and Purpose...... 9 Budgets...... 9 Staff Changes...... 11 Core Operations...... 12 Partnerships and Programs...... 12 Trail Studies and Planning...... 12 Trail Administration...... 14 California National Historic Trail...... 14 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail...... 18 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail...... 20 Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail...... 22 Old Spanish National Historic Trail...... 23 Oregon National Historic Trail...... 26 Pony Express National Historic Trail...... 29 Santa Fe National Historic Trail...... 31 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail...... 34 NTIR Trails Project Summary ...... 38 Trail Websites...... 39 Volunteers-in-Parks (VIP) Program...... 40 University-Based Partnerships...... 40 Geographic Information Systems...... 41 Resource Advocacy and Protection...... 42 Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program...... 44

ELCA El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail ELCAT El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association ELTE El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail FLAP Federal Lands Access Program GIS Geographic Information Systems GPO Government Printing Office IAWC Interpretive Association of Western Colorado IMR Intermountain Region (National Park Service) INAH Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico) MOPI Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail NHT National Historic Trail NPF National Park Foundation Acronym List NPS National Park Service NTIR National Trails BLM Bureau of Land Management Intermountain Region CALI California National Historic Trail OCTA Oregon-California CESU Cooperative Ecosystem Trails Association Studies Unit OLSP Old Spanish National Historic Trail CTTP Connect Trails to Parks OREG Oregon National Historic Trail DCP Developmental Concept Plan PECO Pecos National Historical Park DIGIT Digitally Integrated Geographic POEX Pony Express National Information Technologies Historic Trail DOT Department of Transportation RIM Resources Information Management ROSI Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Wagon wheels, Oregon Trail

RTCA Rivers Trails and Conservation VIP Volunteers-in-Parks Assistance program (NPS program) SAFE Santa Fe National Historic Trail WACC Western Archeological and SFTA Santa Fe Trail Association Conservation Center SWBRPP Southwest Border Resource Protection Program TOTA Trail of Tears Association TRTE Trail of Tears National Historic Trail UNM University of New Mexico USFS United States Forest Service USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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Executive Summary of Fiscal Year 2017

OCTOBER 1, 2016 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Pony Express Station in This document enumerates a considerable number of trail-specific

Gothenburg, Nebraska. Staff, accomplishments. This summary includes the following sampling of in recent years, inventoried the significant staff accomplishments that have impacted most of the trails that various stations and sites all the National Trails Intermountain Region (NTIR) administers: along the Pony Express National • To address different treatments of high potential sites and segments Historic Trail among the various national historic trails, a working group with several NTIR staff was formed on this subject. The group met several times in 2017 to develop standard eligibility criteria, and to re- evaluate resources along the various trails in relation to those criteria. Efforts plan to be completed during the next fiscal year (FY) with implementation anticipated by FY 2019.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 6 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • In preparation for upcoming office moves in Hoffnagle, spent the summer working on both Santa Fe, NM and Salt Lake City, UT, the project. In mid-August, they completed the National Trails Intermountain Region a draft of the 2017 Business Plan. teamed with the Western Archeological and • The National Park Service entered into Conservation Center (WACC) to examine 25 new partnership certifications with and inventory all trail-related permanent non-federal property owners during the records. WACC staff visited both offices and year. Seven of these certifications took inventoried a broad range of common user place on the California National Historic files, along with records from individual Trail (CALI); six on the Mormon Pioneer staff offices. At the Santa Fe office, a National Historic Trail (MOPI); four on the Records Management task force, led by Oregon National Historic Trail (OREG); the administrative officer, worked towards three on both El Camino Real de los creating a standard file naming system and a Tejas National Historic Trail and the Pony common-user file structure. Express National Historic Trail (POEX); • In preparation for the 50th anniversary and one each on the Old Spanish and Santa of the passage of the 1968 National Trails Fe national historic trails (OLSP and SAFE). System Act, the NTIR staff, in all three • The NTIR’s Cultural Resources Team offices, formed a working group and represented the National Park Service contacted colleagues in various partnership in 186 compliance reviews for external associations and other entities to plan undertakings with potential to affect one anniversary-related events. or more of NTIR’s national historic trails. • The NTIR team engaged, for the first Federal Partners in the compliance effort time, with the agency’s Southwest Border comprise the various land management Resource Protection Program (SWBRPP), agencies, primarily the Bureau of Land which provides financial and technical Management, Tennessee Valley Authority, assistance to parks and partners along the US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife United States (US)-Mexico border. NTIR Service, and the US Army Corps of staff and partners submitted three FY 2017 Engineers, along with members of various proposals, two of which were funded. partnership associations. • The office collaborated with the agency’s • NTIR staff prepared and presented a Business Management Group for an NTIR keynote presentation on the evolution business plan. Two Harvard University of North American trails for the Applied interns, Katherine Donato and Elena Preservation Technology Association in March 2017.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 477 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • NTIR staff prepared and presented a paper • The production of rack cards and posters, (later published in the Overland Journal) which were developed for the Find Your on the development of the transcontinental Park campaign (in 2016), continued into railroad and its impacts on the emigrant FY 2017. Office staff produced at least and mail trails. one rack card and poster for each of the • NTIR staff attended a follow-up meeting nine national historic trails administered in Mexico City in order to coordinate or co-administered by the National Trails with Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Intermountain Region. Antropología e Historia [INAH]) on • NTIR staff engaged in discussions to expand common trail preservation/protection the existing standard family of pedestrian efforts to implement ELCA/ELTE action signs. The staff brainstormed, mocked-up, plans agreed upon at the Dos Caminos bi- and presented new pedestrian sign options. national Laredo workshop. Future events • The National Trails Intermountain Region with Instituto Nacional de Antropología remains committed to a safe workplace e Historia include participation in an environment. Throughout the year, various October 2017 workshop in Zacatecas, staff presented a “safety minute” once per Mexico, and a database workshop to be month. This attention to safety has played held in Santa Fe in March 2018. a major role in the absence, among staff, of • The office hosted a Teacher to Ranger to work-related, lost-time injuries. The staff’s Teacher (Caleb Williss), from Highlands Santa Fe-based Geographic Information Ranch, CO, who reviewed the existing System (GIS) specialist served as the trail-related curriculum and created an coordinator to complete the new National NHT lesson plan for hosting on each trail Trails Intermountain Region Safety Plan, website. He created the first-ever education setting standards and championing safety in pages on trail websites and posted the office. information on the NPS Education Portal. • Much progress has taken place with the Junior Wagon Master Program, with uploaded story maps, new Freighter and Bullwhacker booklets, and new Junior Ranger Program materials related to all nine national historic trails.

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Oregon Trail Interpretive

Center near Baker City, OR.

Administration and Staffing

The National Trails Intermountain Region Santa Fe staff administers the Route 66 Corridor administers nine national historic trails and a Preservation Program (ROSI). El Camino Real historic corridor preservation program. In addition, de Tierra Adentro and Old Spanish national it has been charged with writing three ongoing historic trails are co-administered with the trail feasibility studies and one comprehensive Bureau of Land Management. administrative strategy. BUDGETS ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE In FY 2017, the National Trails Intermountain The NTIR staff in Santa Fe, NM with branch Region received $3,524,700 in Operations of offices in Salt Lake City, UT and Albuquerque, the National Park Service (ONPS) funding. In NM, administer the following national historic addition, the NTIR team received $110,000 for trails: California, El Camino Real de Tierra planning and $227,200 for Connect Trails to Adentro, El Camino Real de los Tejas, Mormon Parks (CTTP) projects. See table 1 for details on Pioneer, Old Spanish, Oregon, Pony Express, funding by trail. Santa Fe, and Trail of Tears. In addition, the

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 479 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT TABLE 1. NTIR Funding for FY 2017.

Funding Source Trail or Program Received ONPS Santa Fe National Historic Trail $702,900 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail $461,100 Oregon National Historic Trail $428,700 California National Historic Trail $345,500 Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program $287,100 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail $285,100 Pony Express National Historic Trail $248,500 Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail $242,500 Old Spanish National Historic Trail $240,600 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail $196,000 Masau Trail $33,700 Additional NPS Funding from Other Sources $53,000 Total ONPS Funding $3,524,700

Planning Four Trails (OREG, CALI, MOPI, POEX) Feasibility Study Amendment/ $65,000 Environmental Assessment Butterfield Overland Trail Special Resource Study/Environmental Assessment $25,000 Old Spanish NHT Comprehensive Administrative Strategy $20,000 Total Planning $110,000

Connect Trails Trail of Tears National Historic Trail – Archeo survey, documentation, and $99,500 to Parks (CTTP) trail plan, Cherokee National Forest California National Historic Trail – City of Rocks National Reserve (ID) $63,100 Visitor Experience Enhancement Project Santa Fe National Historic Trail Preservation – Plan for Comanche National $52,400 Grassland (CO) and Cimarron National Grassland (KS) Santa Fe National Historic Trail – Dual Language Digital Story Map, Ft. $12,200 Larned National Historic Site (KS) Total CTTP $227,200

Total $3,861,900

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1047 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT STAFF CHANGES Lynne Mager, interpretive specialist, retired in Philip Taccetta, UNM landscape architect December 2016 intern, completed his work in November 2016

Derek Nelson, GIS specialist, departed the staff Brian Griffith, UNM landscape architect in July 2017 intern, completed his work in August 2017

Lena Guidi, University of New Mexico (UNM) Vanessa Funston, UNM cultural resources Latino Heritage Internship Program intern, intern, completed her work in Spring 2017 completed her work in December 2016 Courtney Brock, UNM Resources Information

Emmanda (Emma) Wilson, interpretive (and Management intern, began her work in Fall 2017 digital media) intern, completed her work in Gianna May Sanchez, UNM Latino Heritage June 2017 Internship Program intern, completed her work in August 2017

Elena Hoffnagle, business plan intern, served from June to August 2017

Katherine Donato, business plan intern, served from June to August 2017

Caleb Williss, Teacher to Ranger to Teacher intern, served from June to July 2017

(Patricia) Diane Weddington, Student Conservation Association intern, began work in September 2017

Maria Nemelka, UNM Spanish-Portuguese Department intern, began work in September 2017

Fort Laramie, Wyoming

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Core Operations

PARTNERSHIPS AND PROGRAMS TRAIL STUDIES AND PLANNING Each national historic trail has a primary partner The National Trails Intermountain Region is organization that supports trail-related research, conducting two feasibility studies and a special interpretation, and development, as well as resource study in response to provisions in the promoting public interest and heritage tourism. 2009 Omnibus Public Lands Management The National Trails Intermountain Region Act, a special resource study in response to the provides limited financial assistance to several of same congressional act, and one comprehensive these organizations from its base ONPS funding. administrative strategy. Table 2 identifies the financial assistance that the Much progress was made in FY 2017 on two of National Trails Intermountain Region provided to these four documents. Regarding the Butterfield trail organizations in FY 2017. Overland Trail Special Resource Study, which

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Partner Organization Funding Provided Trail of Tears Association (for Trail of Tears National Historic Trail) $149,135 Santa Fe Trail Association (for Santa Fe National Historic Trail) $141,327 Oregon-California Trails Association (for the Oregon and California $133,470 national historic trails) Old Spanish Trail Association (for Old Spanish National Historic Trail) $82,500 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association $75,050 (for El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail) National Pony Express Association (for Pony Express National Historic Trail) $65,350 Total $646,832

concerned an 1858-1861 stagecoach route during this period. At the beginning of the fiscal between the Mississippi River and San year, the draft study had been completed and Francisco, CA, the draft study was completed was undergoing internal review. In September in December 2016, and the final study was 2017, however, agency planners advised trails completed in May 2017. But based on changes staff that due to changes in planning guidelines, in the NPS’s planning process, both the the study would be subject to a “categorical regional and Washington offices recommended exclusion.” Based on that decision, trails that all elements of the environmental staff spent the remainder of the fiscal year assessment be removed and that the study responding to that decision. be finalized as a “categorical exclusion.” Less progress was made on two additional After staff implemented those provisions, the studies. The study of the Chisholm and Great regional director approved the final study in Western cattle trails, mandated by Congress, early July 2017. Officials at both the agency and remained under agency review. Similarly, departmental levels reviewed the study for the office staff completed a draft comprehensive remainder of the fiscal year. administrative strategy for Old Spanish The congressionally designated revision of four National Historic Trail with the Bureau of Land feasibility and suitability studies (P.L. 111-11, Management in 2016, but by the end of FY 2017, Sec. 5302), in order to examine the eligibility the final comprehensive administrative strategy of adding new routes to the existing Oregon, had not yet been completed. California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express national historic trails, made great strides

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Trail Administration

CALIFORNIA NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, Congress authorized the California National Historic Trail in 1992. Spurred by which became a California James Marshall’s gold discovery in early 1848, the trail witnessed the passage National Historic Trail certified of hundreds of thousands of westering emigrants during the 1840s, 1850s, and partner in 2017, has an active 1860s. The trail’s many routes followed a broad corridor (which narrowed educational program for as it headed west) from the Missouri River to southwestern Wyoming. Farther Sacramento-area children. west, in Nevada, various routes split and led over various Sierra Nevada passes into California’s Central Valley. Along many portions of the California Trail–from the Missouri River all the way to California–the trail is shared with the Mormon Pioneer, Oregon, and Pony Express national historic trails.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 14 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT jointly authored by two trails employees. It was presented at the OCTA’s annual meeting and also published in OCTA’s Overland Journal. • Completed an interpretive wayside plan for the Applegate Trail. Based on the plan, a number of waysides for this trail are now in the fabrication stage. • Continued working on the multi-year Fort Kearny State Historical Park, in Nebraska, was a key destination for Oglala Lakota filming project. Funded an emigrants along both the Oregon and California national historic trails. audio description of the film and reviewed transcripts, received an initial film draft, KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Oregon- exhibited it to staff and sent comments to the California Trails Association and its chapters, principal investigator for incorporation into Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, the final product. Project partners included NPMap (a suite of web map tools for the National Oglala Lakota College, Humboldt State Park Service), Harpers Ferry Center, Oglala University, and Director David Scheerer. Lakota College, Humboldt State University, • As a follow-up to the four-day charette that City of Rocks National Reserve, the Shoshone- was held in August 2016 for the Pappan’s Bannock Tribes, State of Utah, and the California Ferry developmental concept plan (DCP) in Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Topeka, KS, undertook an extensive review KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: of the document’s interpretive component, • Prepared substantial portions of a assisted by the City of Topeka, Shawnee comprehensive plan for a 46-mile County, Topeka Riverfront Authority, OCTA recreational trail system, for pedestrians members, and other partners. By the end and bicyclists, in the greater Kansas City of the fiscal year, a final document was (MO/KS) area, in cooperation with the anticipated. NTIR staff also completed and Mid-America Regional Council, which distributed charette-related posters. is the designated Metropolitan Planning • Because a major portion of the California Organization for this area, and Vireo, a National Historic Trail route was subject consulting landscape architecture firm. to a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, • Completed a paper on the building of the publicized relevant information about the transcontinental railroad and its impacts eclipse on the OREG/CALI Facebook on emigration, stagecoach, and mail traffic page and linked this information to the along the California Trail. This paper was appropriate NPS trail web pages.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1547 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Peplin Cut, just northwest of Great Salt Lake, was

constructed by Central Pacific workers in early 1869, just

before the rails reached Promontory.

• Wrote, formatted, and printed two newsletters for the Oregon and California national historic trails. • Revised the Auto Tour Route guides and maps for both Nebraska/Northeastern Colorado (first published in August 2006) and Wyoming (first published in July 2007). After locating the original files for text, photos, graphics, and maps, staff updated,

Ash Hollow State Historical Park, along the California and Oregon national corrected as necessary, and formatted both historic trails in Nebraska, was certified in 2017. volumes and submitted them for publication. • Worked at City of Rocks National Reserve, • Placed orders for signs in Johnson County, ID on an interpretive wayside project, in KS, and later in the fiscal year, delivered and partnership with NPS staff and Shoshone- installed the signs. Bannock tribal representatives. • Working in cooperation with local OCTA • Continued the design of seven interpretive members, completed a draft sign plan for panels at Camp Guernsey, WY as a result Lawrence, KS. of collaboration between the National Park • Partnering with OCTA members and a Service and camp employees. local partnership group, initiated a sign • Represented the National Park Service planning project in western Nebraska. on the following key undertakings with Also–again working with the Oregon- potential to affect: Long Canyon Gold California Trails Association–finalized a Mine, Timpie Point/Horseshoe Solar Array sign plan for Summit County, UT, just east Proposal, and the Pipeline Replacement of the Salt Lake City area.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1647 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT on Sublette Cutoff. Partners included the 3. Rock Creek Station State Historical Bureau of Land Management and the State Park, near Fairbury, NE, certified of Utah. December 31, 2016 (Oregon and • Completed a draft of a California state California national historic trails) sign plan (which will provide designs and 4. Legacy of the Plains Museum, in Gering, locations of proposed trail-related highway NE, certified January 14, 2017 (Oregon signs) in cooperation with Caltrans by and California national historic trails) NTIR staff, along with OCTA members. 5. Old Sacramento State Historic Park, in However, no signs have yet been installed. Sacramento, CA, certified June 8, 2017 • Initiated a planning project at Ash Hollow (California National Historic Trail) State Historical Park (Nebraska) related 6. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, in to Connect Trails to Parks funding. The Sacramento, CA, certified June 8, 2017 project partner was the Nebraska Game and (California National Historic Trail) Parks Department. 7. Lander Trail New Fork River Crossing • Initiated project with a University of Historical Park, Big Piney, WY, certified Missouri graduate student (through the June 28, 2017 (California National Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Historic Trail) Studies Unit [CESU] to determine the impact of the “Bleeding Kansas” and Civil War periods on traffic along the California Trail as well as other long distance trails. • Added seven new properties along the California National Historic Trail as certified partners during the year, four of them for more than one national historic trail. The new properties included the following: 1. Ash Hollow State Historical Park, near Lewellen, NE, certified December 31, 2016 (Oregon and California national historic trails) 2. Fort Kearny State Historical Park, near Kearney, NE, certified December 31, 2016 (Oregon and California national historic trails) Independence Rock, west of Casper, WY, was an iconic landmark on the

overland trail corridor.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1747 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT EL CAMINO REAL DE LOS TEJAS • Regarding the Lobanillo Swales, which are NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL historic trail swales located in Sabine County, During the Spanish Colonial era, the El Camino TX, worked with ELCAT representatives and Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail, which completed a series of bilingual waysides at Congress authorized in 2004, was a “royal road” the site. Also at the site, trails staff completed that provided an overland route from Mexico and a set of construction drawings, after which across the Río Grande to Los Adaes in what now is they visited the site to assist with site western Louisiana. development by staking out the site’s parking lot, trailhead, and trail system. KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: El Camino Real • Worked on completing a rack card for the de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association trail, which will be widely distributed at (ELCAT), GTI Environmental, LLC., Instituto visitor outlets along the trail corridor. Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Southwest • Helped sponsor, in early November 2016, Border Resource Protection Program, Texas the last of the trails office’s centennial Historical Commission, and Texas Parks and events, which was held at McKinney Falls Wildlife Department. State Park, near Austin, TX. The event was KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: later publicized in Inside NPS, an agency- • Completed two waysides by staff; the wide newsletter. partner for both was El Camino Real de los • In cooperation with El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association. Tejas National Historic Trail Association, completed new sign plans for three Texas counties: Dimmit, Goliad, and Wilson. Revised the sign plan for Nacogdoches County, TX. • Initiated activity related to a Junior Ranger program for the trail and created the explanatory document about the program. • Prepared three research proposals from trails staff for this trail to the Southwest Border Resource Protection Program. Two of these proposals were later approved for funding, including one to fund a research study of indigenous tribes along the trail in central and southwestern Texas. Trails staff, in 2017, made considerable efforts to develop the Lobanillo

Swales Retracement Trail, in eastern Texas, for visitor use.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1847 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT McKinney Falls Event = In early November 2016, an NPS centennial event–overseen by a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ranger–was held at McKinney

Falls State Park, near Austin.

• Added three properties as certified partners • On the heels of the successful Dos Caminos during the year. The new properties workshop, which was held in Laredo, included the following: TX in June 2016, took a lead role in 1. Lobanillo Swales, near Geneva, TX, translating, editing, and printing a bilingual certified October 14, 2016 report on the workshop and its primary 2. Baumann Family Village Sites, near accomplishments by the trails office. Gause, TX, certified November 28, 2016 • Six months after the Dos Caminos 3. Wise Family Village Site, near Gause, workshop, held a follow-up meeting in TX, certified February 8, 2017 Mexico City where NTIR staff worked with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología The following actions applied to both El e Historia to coordinate trail preservation/ Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic protection efforts and implement action Trail and a nearby trail, El Camino Real de plans generated at the workshop. Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail (see the • Took part in a new bi-national working following section for more information): group organized by Dr. José Francisco • Took part in a SWBRPP partnership- Román Gutiérrez from the University of building meeting in El Paso, TX, related to Zacatecas by NTIR staff. A meeting of the Oñate Crossing project by trails staff that working group was held in Zacatecas, and ELCAT staff. (see following section for Mexico, in October 2017. more information)

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 1947 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Fort Selden State Monument, along the Rio Grande just south of the

Jornada del Muerto, served as a longtime trailside campground before the fort was built in 1865.

At the Yost Escarpment, along the Jornada del Muerto in southern New EL CAMINO REAL DE TIERRA Mexico, the old trail is still clearly visible. ADENTRO NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL The El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National of Utah DIGIT Lab, US Government Printing Historic Trail is one of the oldest roads in the US, Office (GPO), Southwest Border Resource and was authorized as a national historic trail in Protection Program, Friends of the Texas 2000. It is a timeless route of trade and cultural Historical Commission, Spaceport America, exchange and interaction among Spaniards and Gutiérrez-Hubbell House, and Bernalillo other Europeans, American Indians, Mexicans, County Open Space and Cultural Services. and Americans. This internationally significant trail is co-administered by the Bureau of Land KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: Management and the National Park Service. • Continued work with UNM Historic Preservation and Regionalism Program, KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: El Camino which started in 2015, to document historic Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association, buildings associated with this historic trail. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Deliverables will provide important data for Bureau of Land Management, United States Bernalillo County ELCA urban trail systems. Forest Service, UNM School of Architecture • Working with partners Cornerstones and Planning’s Historic Preservation and Community Partnerships and the Santa Fe Regionalism Program, UNM Spanish- National Forest, oversaw completion of the Portuguese Department, Agua Fria Village La Bajada roadbed condition assessment Association, New Mexico State Historic and pilot stabilization project. Preservation Office, Isleta Pueblo, University

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2047 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • In collaboration with New Mexico State Protection Program by 1) attending a Historic Preservation Office, and working with partnership-building meeting in El Paso, the Santa Fe National Forest, listed La Bajada’s 2) serving on a project review panel, and North Section on the state historic register 3) successfully applying for several and forwarded it to the Keeper of the National SWBRPP-funded projects. Register for listing on the National Register for • Initiated a CESU-sponsored Spanish- Historic Places. language translation project, with a UNM • Through a cooperative agreement with Spanish-Portuguese Department graduate Isleta Pueblo, completed a historic roads student, which will include translation of survey project on El Camino Real de Tierra ELCA travel itinerary and wayside exhibits. Adentro National Historic Trail and on • Worked with a contractor to commence the other trails surrounding the pueblo. successful Oñate Crossing project, a cultural • Updated and printed the El Camino Real landscape report and historic structures de Tierra Adentro map and guide. Worked report that focuses both on the Old Fort on this project with the Bureau of Land Bliss-Hart’s Mill site (in El Paso, TX) and Management, the University of Utah DIGIT various trail-related historic sites in Ciudad Lab, and the US Government Printing Office. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. • Continued working with the Agua Fria Village • Worked to secure future agreements Association to produce a map detailing the with the group Friends of the Texas historic resources in the Agua Fria area. Historical Commission. • Created and finalized road and pedestrian • Worked with Bernalillo County to plan for, sign plans for the Buckman Road retracement and participate in, the annual Camino Real trail project, which has been finalized and Trade Fair, which is held at the Gutiérrez- forwarded to the contractor. Reviewed Hubbell House in Albuquerque’s South construction drawings for accuracy and Valley. Assistance also provided for a trail- made sure all of the signs were the correct related speakers series which was held at the type and in the correct location. Partners same facility. included Santa Fe County, Bureau of Land • Visited the Spaceport America site, and the Management, and the US Forest Service. nearby Jornada del Muerto, to work with • Completed various follow-up activities facility staff on common goals and to map and products related to the Dos Caminos out future projects. Trails staff also visited Workshop, which was held in Laredo, TX in the Yost Escarpment Trail, Point of Rocks, June 2016 (see the previous section for more Ojo de Perrillo, Oñate Crossing and La Joya information about these activities.) de Sevilleta. • Served as an active, new partner with the agency’s Southwest Border Resource

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2147 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT MORMON PIONEER NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL The Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, which Congress authorized in 1978, commemorates those Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who left Nauvoo, IL in 1846 and continued on to the Great Salt Lake Valley the following year. Along many portions of the trail–from the Missouri River all the way to Utah–the trail is shared with the California, Oregon, and Pony Express national historic trails.

KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Iowa Mormon Trails Association, Brigham Young University,

A statue of Brigham Young is located in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square, at Utah State Historic Preservation Office, and the western end of the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. The statue various owners of historic sites and historic was part of the multiple property nomination form project, with Brigham trail segments.

Young University. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Initiated consultations with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historic sites director and staff to develop working relationships and partnerships. The talks opened the door to staff from the two organizations cooperating on planning reviews. NTIR staff and trail partners visit the Seven Mile Creek Swales, a remnant of • Engaged in meetings–in Illinois, Iowa, the 1846 Mormon Emigration, located near Murray, in Clarke County, Iowa. and Nebraska–with landowners and with members of the Iowa Mormon Trails Association regarding site certification, interpretation, signage, and other trail- related matters. Visited sites included the Winter Quarters visitor center in Florence, NE; Council Bluffs, Richardson’s Point, 7-Mile Creek Camp, and Mt. Pisgah, IA; Nauvoo Landing, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, served as the and several sites in Nauvoo, IL. beginning of the Mormon emigration in February and March 1846.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2247 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Received, reviewed, and revised the MOPI OLD SPANISH NATIONAL multiple property documentation form HISTORIC TRAIL and two National Register nominations The Bureau of Land Management and National that are being prepared by Brigham Young Park Service jointly administer this historic trade University staff. Then, initiated a Utah State route, which was active between Santa Fe and Historic Preservation Office review. Los Angeles during the period from 1829 to 1848. • While partnering with OCTA members Congress authorized Old Spanish National Historic and a local partnership group, initiated a Trail in 2002. sign planning project in western Nebraska. KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Old Also–again working with Oregon- Spanish Trail Association, Bureau of Land California Trails Association–finalized a Management, US Forest Service, US Fish and sign plan for Summit County, UT, just east Wildlife Service (USF&WS), Harpers Ferry of the Salt Lake City area. Center, National Park Foundation (NPF), • Added six new properties as certified Koosharem Band of the Southern Paiute, partners during the year. The new Interpretive Association of Western Colorado, properties included the following: Aztec Ruins National Monument, State of 1. Legacy of the Plains Museum, in Utah, and Sevier County, UT. Gering, NE, certified January 14, 2017 KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: 2. Mormon Pioneer Historic Trailside • Continued several large proposed Park, near Garden Grove, IA, certified development projects along the trail June 20, 2017 corridor during FY 2017. Trails staff, 3. Prairie Trails Museum of Wayne therefore, worked with BLM staff, and County, in Corydon, IA, certified in some cases with the State of Utah, June 21, 2017 to respond to several proposed key 4. Florence Mill, just north of Omaha, NE, undertakings that had the potential to affect certified July 4, 2017 trail resources. These projects included the 5. Joseph Smith Historic Site, in Nauvoo, Verde Transmission Line, the Aztec East IL, certified July 7, 2017 Arterial, the Lake Powell Pipeline, and 6. Richardson’s Point, near Milton the Moab Old Spanish Recreation Plan. (Keosauqua area), IA, certified The National Park Service served as the July 25, 2017 cooperating agency for several of these project proposals.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2347 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Looking Glass Rock, located in northern San Juan County near Moab, UT, was part of a recreational-strategy document which was part of a joint effort with the San Juan County and the Bureau of Land Management.

• Made progress in completing the about the area from the perspective of the final version of the trail’s comprehensive Koosharem Band members. administrative strategy. Trails staff assisted • Completed and installed other new with review comments and editing; with waysides along the trail, both in Colorado updating trail mapping; and with updating and New Mexico. Partners included the trail’s list of high potential sites the agency’s Harpers Ferry Center, the and segments. National Park Foundation, the Old Spanish • Completed the first major exhibit project Trail Association, the Bureau of Land undertaken along the Old Spanish National Management, the Interpretive Association Historic Trail which was unveiled at of Western Colorado, and Aztec Ruins Koosharem Reservoir in Sevier County, UT. National Monument. Project partners included the Koosharem • Created and finalized a sign plan to mark Band of the Southern Paiute and the US Fish a stretch of historic route between Delta and Wildlife Service. The various exhibit and Grand Junction, CO. Worked with panels oriented visitors to the recreational partners from Old Spanish Trail Association opportunities offered at Koosharem and Interpretive Association of Western Reservoir, and they also told historical stories Colorado (IAWC).

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2447 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • In response to an Active Trails Grant that the National Park Foundation awarded to the National Trails Intermountain Region, held a late-season (October 2016) Active Trails event in Grand Junction, CO, intended to attract new trail visitors through hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding. This was an NPS centennial event, in which a new retracement trail was opened to the At the “Back to the Trail” centennial event, which was held in Grand public. On the heels of that event, ordered Junction, CO in October 2016, participants had the opportunity to ride along several interpretation panels for the site, a portion of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. which were installed in September 2017. Partners included Mesa County, the City of Grand Junction, the Grand Valley Trails Alliance, and the Interpretive Association of Western Colorado. An NTIR-authored article on the event later appeared in Spanish Traces, the OSTA journal. • In anticipation of the completion of the trail’s comprehensive administrative strategy, received the first partnership A series of silhouettes outside of Green River, UT, is reminiscent of an Old certification for the Old Spanish National Spanish Trail mule train. Historic Trail for the Fort Uncompahgre Interpretive Center in Delta, CO. The certification became official on July 5, 2017. • Accompanied Bureau of Land Management trail officials on planning sessions to increase NTIR’s role in various recreational-strategy documents for portions of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail in Utah. This involved reconnaissance trips along the route, During 2017, staff worked with their counterparts at Aztec Ruins National together with meetings at Salina, in Sevier Monument on an Old Spanish Trail retracement route. County, and Moab, in Grand County.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2547 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT OREGON NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL Congress authorized the Oregon National Historic Trail in 1978. This iconic trail, which runs between Missouri and Oregon, witnessed the passage of hundreds of thousands of westering emigrants during the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s. Along many portions of the trail–from the Missouri River all the way to Idaho–the trail is shared with the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express national historic trails.

KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Oregon- California Trails Association and its chapters, Echo Meadows and its swales, located southwest of Stanfield, OR, was Bureau of Land Management, US Forest featured in the recently released Oregon Trail app. Service, NPMap, Harpers Ferry Center, Oglala Lakota College, Humboldt State University, • Prepared substantial portions of a NPS’s Midwest Regional Office, and Innovators comprehensive plan for the 46-mile trail Educational Foundation. system in the greater Kansas City (MO/KS) area, in cooperation with the Mid-America KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: Regional Council, which is the designated • Prepared an Oregon Trail mobile app Metropolitan Planning Organization for for visitors with hearing impairments, this area, and Vireo, a consulting landscape assisted by such partners as the Bureau architecture firm. of Land Management, US Forest Service, • Jointly authored a paper on the building NPMap, Harpers Ferry Center, and various of the transcontinental railroad and its privately-owned sites along the trail. Project impacts on emigration, stagecoach, and began with a ten-day trail reconnaissance mail traffic along the central trails by two in October 2016 with 84 sites selected, trails employees. The paper was presented primarily from Auto Tour Route sites, at Oregon-California Trails Association’s and site photos taken. Trails staff worked annual meeting and also published in with the contractor to complete the app OCTA’s Overland Journal. Although by summer 2017. The final product was the transcontinental railroad connected presented to the OCTA board of directors Omaha, NE with Sacramento, CA–and thus at its annual meeting. went hundreds of miles south of Oregon– the railroad’s completion, in 1869, had a substantial impact on Oregon Trail traffic.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2647 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Scott Spring Park, located in Westmoreland, KS, is on the Oregon and At the BLM Oregon Interpretive Center, near Baker City, trails

California national historic trails. The wagon and team, with appropriate staff worked with partners to improve the center’s American interpretation, are featured on the new Oregon Trail app. Indian interpretation.

• Continued working on the multi-year OREG/CALI Facebook page and linked this Oglala Lakota filming project. Funded an information to the appropriate NPS trail audio description of the film and reviewed web pages. transcripts, received an initial film draft, • Regarding the (July 2018) American Solar exhibited it to staff and sent comments to the Challenge, held along the approximate principal investigator for incorporation into Oregon Trail route, incurred significant the final product. Project partners included preparatory work (phone calls, Oglala Lakota College, Humboldt State teleconferences, other outreach) with University, and Director David Scheerer. federal agencies, state tourism bureaus, • As a follow-up to the four-day charette that venue locations, and various chambers was held in August 2016 for the Pappan’s of commerce along the proposed route. Ferry DCP (in Topeka, KS), undertook Partners included the agency’s Midwest an extensive review of the document’s Regional Office, the Oregon-California interpretive component, assisted by Trail Association, and Innovators Oregon-California Trails Association Educational Foundation. members and other partners. By the • Placed orders for signs in Johnson County, end of the fiscal year, a final document KS, and later in the fiscal year the signs were was anticipated. Also, completed and delivered and installed. distributed charette-related posters. • Working in cooperation with local OCTA • Because much of the route of the Oregon members, completed a draft sign plan for National Historic Trail was subject to a total Lawrence, KS. solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, publicized • Partnering with OCTA members and a local information about the eclipse on the partnership group, initiated a sign planning project in western Nebraska.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2747 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Initiated a planning project at Ash Hollow State Historical Park (Nebraska) related to a Connect Trails to Parks project. Project partner was the Nebraska Game and Parks Department. • Initiated project with a University of Missouri graduate student (through the Great Rivers CESU) to determine the One of more than 80 sites selected for the new Oregon Trail app is the Great impact of the “Bleeding Kansas” and Civil Platte River Road Archway Monument, near Kearney, NE, which features a War periods on traffic along the Oregon statue of two boys fleeing a mid-19th-century Indian attack. Trail as well as other long-distance trails. • Added four new properties as certified • Wrote, formatted, and printed two Oregon NHT partners during the year, newsletters for the Oregon and California four of them for more than one national national historic trails. historic trail. The new properties included • Placed newly developed Teacher-to-Ranger- the following: to-Teacher lesson plans on the Oregon 1. Ash Hollow State Historical Park, NHT web page. near Lewellen, NE, certified • Revised the Auto Tour Route guides and December 31, 2016 (Oregon and maps for both Nebraska/Northeastern California national historic trails) Colorado (first published in August 2006) 2. Fort Kearny State Historical Park, and Wyoming (first published in July 2007). near Kearney, NE, certified After locating the original files for text, December 31, 2016 (Oregon and photos, graphics, and maps, staff updated, California national historic trails) corrected as necessary, and formatted both 3. Rock Creek Station State Hist. Park, volumes and submitted them for publication. near Fairbury, NE, certified • Continued the design of seven interpretive December 31, 2016 (Oregon and panels at Camp Guernsey, WY as a result California national historic trails) of collaboration between the National Park 4. Legacy of the Plains Museum, Service and camp employees. in Gering, NE, certified • Submitted a successful CTTP project for January 14, 2017 (Oregon and American Indian interpretation at Oregon California national historic trails) Trail Interpretive Center, near Baker, OR. Partnered with the Bureau of Land Management on the proposal.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2847 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Rock Creek Station State Historical Park, in southeastern Nebraska, was the

site of a Pony Express station, as well as being on the Oregon and California

national historic trails. Trails staff certified the site in 2017.

an enterprise, lasted just 19 months during 1860 and 1861, but its fame endures. Many Pony Express enthusiasts enjoy re-creating the thrill of this cross- Staff with NPS’s Vanishing Treasures Program worked with local partners on country ride by participating in the annual re-ride a preservation plan and structural assessment for the Marysville (Kansas) along the route.

Pony Express barn. KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: National Pony Express Association, NPS’s Vanishing Treasures PONY EXPRESS NATIONAL Program, Marysville Pony Express Barn HISTORIC TRAIL Association, Bureau of Land Management, and Congress authorized the Pony Express National the Oregon-California Trails Association. Historic Trail in 1992. The route connects St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento and San Francisco, CA. Along KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: many portions of the trail–from the Missouri River Collaborated with NPS’s Vanishing Treasures all the way to California–the trail is shared with Program to develop a preservation plan and the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Oregon structural assessment for the Marysville national historic trails. The Pony Express rider and (Kansas) Pony Express Barn. Partnered with the his galloping horse have become one of the mythic Marysville Pony Express Barn Association. icons of the American West. The Pony Express, as

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 2947 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT In Old Sacramento, CA, at the western end of the annual Pony Express

Re-ride route, a statue of a galloping rider is adjacent to the B.F. Hastings

Building (Wells Fargo office), where a Pony Express office once operated.

• As in previous years, created a Pony Geospatial Insights Newsletter. Express Re-Ride interactive map for the • Provided technical assistance for one National Pony Express Association and wayside, which was sponsored by the gave it constant support during the annual National Pony Express Association. mid-June event. This map provided live Partnered with the Oregon-California updates of the locations of the riders on the Trails Association. trail via Global Positioning System (GPS). • Completed Pony Express Stations The map has continued to be popular digital interactive map project, detailing among members and has become a staple the location and description of the various in their re-ride every year. NTIR efforts Pony Express stations. in this project have been highlighted in • Provided financial and technical assistance various NPS newsletters such as the NPS to National Pony Express Association Intermountain Region (IMR) InterCOMM, volunteers with management of their Inside NPS, IMR GIS Blog, and NPS new website.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3047 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Partnered with Eldorado County, and the SANTA FE NATIONAL US Forest Service, on a Federal Lands HISTORIC TRAIL Access Program (FLAP) application for Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was construction of Brockliss Bridge CA, and primarily a commercial highway linking various prepared a CTTP application for funding Missouri River communities with Santa Fe, NM. in FY 2018. Immediately to the west, Today, this well-known trail attracts many visitors ordered trail signs along the Pollock Pines- and partners and enjoys the support of a very to-Placerville route in accordance to a active trail association. Congress authorized the previously-completed sign plan. Santa Fe National Historic Trail in 1987. Portions • Working with OCTA’s Kanza Chapter, of the trail in eastern Kansas and western Missouri completed a sign plan for the route between are shared with the California and Oregon the Marysville and Hollenberg Pony national historic trails, while in Santa Fe, the Express stations, after which the specified Santa Fe National Historic Trail meets El Camino signs were ordered and delivered. Real de Tierra Adentro and the Old Spanish • Partnering with the Bureau of Land national historic trails. Management, responded to a key KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Santa Fe Trail undertaking–the Gold Bar Mine, in Eureka Association and its chapters, City of Santa Fe, County, NV–with potential to affect. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Colorado • Added three new properties as certified State Historic Preservation Office, Fort Larned partners for the Pony Express National National Historic Site, Fort Larned Old Guard, Historic Trail during the year. The new Fort Union National Monument, Harpers properties included the following: Ferry Center, Kansas Historical Society, Middle 1. Fort Kearny State Historical Park, Tennessee State University, Pecos National near Kearney, NE, certified Historical Park, University of Missouri, December 31, 2016 University of New Mexico, and US Forest 2. Rock Creek Station State Historical Service (Cimarron and Comanche National Park, near Fairbury NE, certified Grassland). December 31, 2016 KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: 3. Legacy of the Plains Museum, in • Through a CTTP project, initiated a Gering, NE, certified January 14, 2017 partnership with the US Forest Service (Cimarron and Comanche National Grassland) to produce a preservation plan for approximately twenty miles of Santa Fe Trail in southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3147 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • In partnership with Middle Tennessee State University and the Kansas Historical Society, continued progress on two historic building identification and recording projects in Missouri (Middle Tennessee State University) and Kansas (Kansas Historical Society) to identify and record historic buildings within the Santa Fe National Historic Trail’s period of significance (1821-1880) along the trail corridor. • In collaboration with the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office and the Pecos National Historical Park US Forest Service (Comanche National Grassland), listed Iron Springs District on • Initiated project with a University of the National Register this year, and two Missouri graduate student (through the more nominations are being reviewed Great Rivers CESU) to determine the by the Army Corps of Engineers Federal impact of the “Bleeding Kansas” and Civil Preservation Officer. War periods on traffic along the Santa Fe • Created and posted story maps for the Santa Trail and other long-distance trails. Fe Trail Association’s Junior Wagon Master • Through a CTTP project, provided Freighter and Bullwhacker programs. These technical and financial assistance for maps are an interactive version of the wayside development on the Cimarron booklets for users to visualize the trail while National Grassland, in Morton County, they are going through the activities. The KS. Partners included the Santa Fe Trail story maps have been published on NTIR’s Association and the US Forest Service. Santa Fe NHT webpage. Signs were ordered, and later delivered, for • Partnered with the Santa Fe Trail placement at various Cimarron National Association, the City of Santa Fe, and the Grassland locations. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, and • Wrote a history of 30 years of cooperation contracted for development of four trail between the National Park Service and waysides. Locations included Amelia White the Santa Fe Trail Association, which was Park and the Museum of Spanish Colonial published in May 2017 in the Santa Fe Trails Art, both in Santa Fe, NM. Association (SFTA) quarterly publication

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3247 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT The Point of Rocks site, near Elkhart, KS, lies adjacent to the Santa Fe Amelia White Park – In 2017, trails staff partnered with the City of Santa

National Historic Trail companion route in the Cimarron National Grasslands. Fe on a wayside at Amelia White Park, which is bisected by the Santa Fe

Trails staff worked with US Forest Service partners on wayside development National Historic Trail. in this area.

Working with partners, trails staff visit Santa Fe National Historic Autograph Rock, on a privately owned ranch near Boise City, OK,

Trail remnants near Point of Rocks, Elkhart, KS, to identify contains hundreds of inscriptions left by Santa Fe National Historic interpretive opportunities. Trail travelers.

Wagon Tracks. Additional articles about derivations and linguistic origins of place this 30-year relationship were posted on names served as the basis for interactive the agency’s regional newsletter, IMR maps with clickable popups, located on Intercomm, and the agency’s internal, the agency’s SAFE web page. national website, Inside NPS. • Approved a CTTP project to compile a • In cooperation with various museums and dual language story map for the Santa the City of Santa Fe, assisted in finalizing Fe Trail corridor in central and western a developmental concept plan for future Kansas–based on the area surrounding Museum Hill development. Fort Larned National Historic Site–in • Worked with a UNM History Department late February 2017. Soon afterward, graduate student to complete the Santa Fe the Fort Larned Old Guard, a 501(c) Trail place names research and mapping (3) group affiliated with the site, hired project, funded by UNM’s Career Diversity for Historians Program. Research on name

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3347 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT a history graduate student, at Emporia State University, to compile historic site information for the story map. Research was ongoing at the close of the fiscal year. • Placed orders for signs in Johnson County, KS. Later in the fiscal year, the signs were delivered and installed. • Finalized a sign plan for the trail near Buckner, MO, in eastern Jackson County, after which specific signs were ordered and delivered for installation. • Added one new property as a certified partner during the year. Rock Creek Crossing, a historic site near Council Grove, KS, was certified on July 11, 2017. • Posted SAFE-related Teacher to Ranger to Teacher curriculum materials on the trail website by a Denver, CO, area teacher In Monroe County, TN, trails staff worked with US Forest Service working on a summer internship. officials and a Western Carolina University professor on a Unicoi • Created two newsletters for the Santa Fe Turnpike inventory project. National Historic Trail during the fiscal year. • Made significant modifications and TRAIL OF TEARS NATIONAL improvements to the existing, trail-wide HISTORIC TRAIL Santa Fe NHT Media Tour. This tour, which In 1838, the United States government forcibly has more than 500 stops, now includes removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people closed captioning for all videos. NTIR staff from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North tested the tour at several Santa Fe-area Carolina, and Georgia, and resettled them in Indian sites during the office’s all-hands meeting. Territory (now Oklahoma). Trail of Tears National Partners included the Santa Fe Trail Historic Trail recognizes the removal of the Cherokee Association, Pecos National Historical Park, and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed Fort Union National Monument, Bent’s Old westward. Today, the trail encompasses over 5,000 Fort National Historic Site, Fort Larned miles of land and water routes, and traverses National Historic Site, Stephen F. Austin portions of nine states. The Trail of Tears National State University, and NPS’s Volunteers-in- Historic Trail was authorized in 1987. Parks (VIP) Program.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3447 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT KEY PARTNERS/COOPERATORS: Trail of Tears Association and its chapters, Cherokee Gardens, GA, Cherokee Nation, City of Paducah, KY, Cobb County Parks, Cobb Master Gardeners, Friends of Green Meadows Preserve, Forsythe County Historical Association, Forsyth County Parks and Recreational Department, Fort Defiance State Park, Fort Massac State Park, Hiwassee Heritage Center (Charleston, TN), Hopkinsville A significant 2017 project was the development of a Trail of Tears (KY) Parks and Recreation, Middle Tennessee interpretive trail in Decatur, AL. State University, Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri Humanities Council, National Park Foundation, Tennessee Valley Authority, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service (Cherokee National Forest), and Western Carolina University.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Continued work with Middle Tennessee State University to develop two heritage development plans (historic structure reports) During 2017, Jill Jensen of the National Trails Intermountain Region (right) for important trails sites; submit two National met with Rusty Wiseman of the Missouri Department of Transportation at Old Register nominations; conduct reconnaissance Greenville, MO, to discuss future partnerships. on cultural landscapes in Alabama and Tennessee; and to maintain the recently- completed historic building database. • Worked with Western Carolina University experts in implementing a historical research and remote sensing project at Fort Cass, TN. (Fort Cass was the Trail of Tears’ starting point for more than half of the 17 Cherokee detachments that headed west in 1838.) Now in its second year of funding, In 2017, trails staff–working with US Forest Service counterparts– the Fort Cass project has located previously completed a preliminary draft Development Concept Plan for Fort unknown Cherokee encampments through Armistead, a Trail of Tears-era site in eastern Tennessee.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3547 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT archival research, sophisticated mapping, • Engaged in numerous signage projects, and on-site investigations. In addition, including in Tuscumbia, AL; Murray trails staff edited, finalized, and delivered to County, GA; Anna and Jentel Farms, partners a developmental concept plan for IL; three Tennessee counties (Benton, the Charleston/Fort Cass area. Davidson, and Franklin); and Red Clay • Completed two wayside projects and State Historic Park, TN. initiated three others. These waysides • Worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority are located at the following locations: 1) and the Southeast Tennessee Development Cherokee Garden at Green Meadows, District on a CTTP project, initiated in 2017, Powder Springs, GA, 2) Paducah, KY, 3) which will result in the construction of 0.5 Welch’s Mill (Poole’s Mill), Forsyth County, miles of retracement trail in the Blythe Ferry GA, 4) Fort Defiance (near Cairo), IL, and area (Rhea County). Additional partners 5) Fort Massac, Massac County, IL. Partners included Meigs County, the Friends of the for these projects included the Trail of Tears Cherokee Removal Memorial Park, and Trail Association, City of Paducah, KY, Cherokee of Tears Association. Garden, Cobb County Parks, Cobb Master • Met with new Rivers Trails and Gardeners, Friends of Green Meadows Conservation Assistance program (RTCA) Preserve, Forsyth County Historical partners about the Hiwassee River Blueway Association, Forsyth County Parks and Project (which will develop 55 miles of Recreational Department, Fort Defiance this river for water-based recreation). State Park, and Fort Massac State Park. Discussion centered on how the developing • Completed a cooperative agreement blueway might tie into the Trail of Tears with the City of Decatur, AL, in order retracement trail that is being developed at to implement a Trail of Tears-themed Blythe Ferry. interpretive trail in the downtown area. • Provided event planning, technical This project is an outgrowth of a charette- assistance, coordination, and onsite support based DCP that was completed several to the annual Cherokee Remember the years ago. Removal Ride. Partners included the • Submitted a successful CTTP proposal Trail of Tears Association, National Park for water route interpretation and Foundation (via an Active Trails Grant), signing. Project partners are the Trail of Cherokee Nation, and communities along Tears Association and the US Army Corps the ride corridor. of Engineers.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3647 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Conducted interpretation workshop in Pipeline (between Cushing, OK and Tennessee. Partnered with the Trail of Tears Memphis, TN). Partners included Tennessee Association, Tennessee chapter. Valley Authority, US Forest Service, • Visited sites in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Hopkinsville State Park, and the US Army Missouri to meet with key partners and Corps of Engineers. members of the Trail of Tears Association. • Completed a draft DCP document for Fort Met with volunteers of the Trail of Tears Armistead, in Monroe County, TN and sent Association, who discussed research on it out for internal review. trail mapping; and met with Missouri • In the wake of damage sustained to the Department of Transportation’s lead Unicoi Turnpike in March 2014, met with archaeologist, Rusty Wiseman, to discuss colleagues from the Cherokee National potential projects. Partners included the Forest staff to discuss survey/inventory Missouri Department of Transportation, work on the forest, along with a potential Trail of Tears Association, and the Missouri retracement trail project. Assisting on this Humanities Council. project was the Tennessee Valley Authority, • Compiled and completed an interpretive the Hiwassee Heritage Center (Charleston, media guide for the trail. A draft version TN), and Middle Tennessee State University. of the guide was presented at the spring • Placed trail-related rack cards, both for 2017 TOTA board meeting, after which Arkansas/Oklahoma and for the greater comments were gathered from both NTIR Chattanooga area (containing portions of staff and TOTA members. The nearly Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee), along with complete guide was shown again at the fall various travel itineraries, on the trail website. 2017 TOTA meeting and will be completed in fiscal year 2018. • Represented the National Park Service on the following key undertakings with potential to affect: Four Corners Marina Lease (Davidson County, TN), Tennessee Valley Authority Vegetation Management Plan, Trail of Tears Commemorative Park Disc Golf Proposal (Hopkinsville, KY), Unicoi Turnpike Damage Mitigation (Monroe County, TN) and Diamond

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3747 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT SECTION FIVE NTIR Trails Project Summary See table 3 for new and completed ONPS base-funded projects for FY 2017.

TABLE 3. New and Completed ONPS Base-Funded Projects, FY 2017 Trail(s) Partner(s) Project Description CALI NPS, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe City of Rocks National Reserve interpretive wayside project ELCA GTI Environmental Literature Search ELCA UNM School of Architecture and Planning Historic Building Documentation in Bernalillo County ELCA Cornerstone Community Partnerships La Bajada Roadbed Condition Assessment and Pilot Stabilization Project ELCA Isleta Pueblo Historic Roads Survey Project ELCA Santa Fe County Buckman Road Retracement Trail Project ELCA AmaTerra, Inc. Oñate Crossing Cultural Landscape Report / Historic Structures Report MOPI Brigham Young University MOPI Multiple Property Documentation Form and National Register nominations OLSP Koosharem Band of Southern Paiute, USFWS Koosharem Reservoir Exhibit Panels OLSP NPF (Active Trails Grant), Mesa County, Grand Junction (CO) Active Trails Event City of Grand Junction, Grand Valley Trails Alliance, IAWC OREG NPMap, BLM, US Forest Service Oregon Trail Mobile App OREG/CALI/SAFE Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City-area comprehensive trail plan Vireo Consulting OREG/CALI/SAFE University of Missouri “Bleeding Kansas” study–historical research OREG/CALI/MOPI Oglala Lakota College, Humboldt State Oglala Lakota filming project University OREG/CALI/ Wyoming Military Department Interpretive panels–design and installation MOPI/POEX POEX Vanishing Treasures Program, Marysville Barn Preservation Plan and Marysville Pony Express Museum Structural Assessment ROSI Research 66 Organization of annual meeting ROSI Route 66, the Road Ahead Organizational support SAFE Middle Tennessee State University, Kansas Building Identification and Historical Society Recording Project in Missouri TRTE Middle Tennessee State University Preparation of two heritage development plans (historic structure reports) and two National Register nominations

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3847 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT City of Rocks National Reserve

Trail(s) Partner(s) Project Description

TRTE Western Carolina University Fort Cass, TN–historical research and remote sensing project TRTE City of Decatur Design and implementation of Trail of Tears interpretive trail TRTE US Forest Service Development Concept Plan for Fort Armistead, in Monroe County, TN TRTE US Forest Service Unicoi Turnpike survey/inventory work and proposed retracement trail project

TRAIL WEBSITES • Submitted 6,562 pages of PDF website Personnel currently manage ten websites: one content to GPO contractor for conversion to for each of the nine national historic trails 508 compliant versions. that the National Trails Intermountain Region • Developed a social media plan for nine trail either administers or co-administers, plus the media sites that covers as many as 18 social NTIR website. The content management system media accounts. Incorporated into the plan interface that the National Trails Intermountain is methodology to evaluate the effectiveness Region uses to update its ten websites requires of NTIR’s social media, as well as provide constant attention and updating as well as accurate virtual visitation statistics. As a by- additional information and imagery. product of the plan’s completion, created 1) NTIR’s Flickr account, 2) a Facebook NEW FEATURES: Business Manager account that manages • Conducted a navigation and content all of NTIR’s Facebook and Instagram review, and developed content management accounts, and 3) a POEX twitter account. strategy for all websites.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 3947 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Updated the “Places to Go” portion VOLUNTEERS-IN-PARKS (VIP) PROGRAM of five websites. This year’s budget allowed the office to extend • Analyzed, developed, and began programmatic support to each implementing a common site navigation partner organization. and page title layout for the four northern KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: trails websites. • Undertook major steps to re-design • Created new education webpages for four a VIP program. trail webpages. A curated list of online • Managed VIP funds and program with lesson plans was entered into the NPS over 3,000 volunteers contributing over education portal and then linked from new 151,000 hours in trail interpretation, education pages to the portal. protection, and development. • Added Teacher to Ranger to Teacher NTIR • Began writing a NTIR VIP guide. lesson plan into the NPS education portal • Served as a contact for TOTA, SFTA, and (see above). OSTA volunteers. • At a TOTA workshop, demonstrated • Added a call for hours and a request examples of digital media alternatives to for expanded highlights and photos. traditional media such as publications These were received and submitted in or waysides. At the same workshop, October 2017. incorporated virtual reality into the interpretation training and demonstrated UNIVERSITY-BASED PARTNERSHIPS the technique’s usefulness and applicability. • Hosted a five-month digital media intern • Sponsored a digital intern from Stephen from Stephen F. Austin State University. F. Austin State University, who completed • Established relationship with the Stephen F. work on a variety of digital media products. Austin State University for the purposes of completing NTIR interpretive projects and providing university students with real-time interpretive products. Partners included Stephen F. Austin State University, Trail of Tears Association, Santa Fe Trail Association, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4047 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Continued, for a third year, working hand-in- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS hand with the University of New Mexico on Geographic Information Systems is an integral a successful memorandum of understanding part of trails programming, as its products are that results in student internships from used routinely by in-house and independent several university departments. researchers, program managers, cultural • Worked with UNM graduate student on an resource specialists, planners, interpreters, and all-trails vignettes project. In collaboration the public. with the trail associations, student began The NTIR GIS program, operated by the staff researching approximately 7-10 people for on the RIM Team, oversees the development each national historic trail. The purpose and ongoing maintenance of the GIS data for is to tell the stories of the trails through the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program a diversity of voices. The final narratives and nine national historic trails. In addition to can be modified, if needed, in order to be the in-house hours devoted by full-time NTIR used for interpretive exhibits and waysides, staff, staff continues to work with the University podcasts, social media, and web pages. of Utah’s Department of Geography DIGIT • Worked with UNM to develop an Lab under a multiyear cooperative agreement interdisciplinary trails course, to be taught established between the National Park Service during the fall of 2018. A History Department and the university. The DIGIT Lab assists in the graduate student was hired to work with a management of the geodatabase for the nine professor on course development. national historic trails. The DIGIT Lab also serves • Initiated project with a University of Missouri as an additional repository for trail data, and it graduate student (through the Great Rivers provides technical advice and assistance as needed. CESU) to determine the impact of the “Bleeding Kansas” and Civil War periods on KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: traffic along the Oregon, California, and Santa • Continued a relationship with the Fe national historic trails. University of Utah DIGIT Lab staff and students, and continued its CESU agreement. This past year, the DIGIT Lab participated in several projects such as the Route 66 Corridor Review, sign plan maintenance and map creation.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4147 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT • Coordinated various GIS projects for • Continued as the co-lead for the National interns at the University of New Mexico. Trails System GIS Network, engaging Some of these projects included making other trail partners and offices (primarily story maps, working on ArcGIS Online, and through the sponsorship of a monthly helping to edit trail data sets. teleconference) to exchange information. • Created a new database following Federal RESOURCE ADVOCACY Trail Data Standards for all of the national AND PROTECTION historic trails that the National Trails The number of requests to the National Trails Intermountain Region administers. These Intermountain Region for consultation on standards ensure that the data provides large energy projects rose sharply since FY appropriate information and uniformity 2016. Those requests that do come forward are when distributed. nonfederal undertakings proposed for private • Posted its Federal Trail Data Standards lands. The National Trails Intermountain Region database to the Integrated Resource remains active, however, in a number of large Management Applications web site. This is energy projects that were initiated several years the data store for the National Park Service ago. In addition, NTIR staff plays a consulting from which the public can download data. role in environmental compliance processes • Created a poster for the 2017 ESRI User for several federal land exchanges, mining Conference that showcased NTIR’s operations, pipelines, and other developments. sign plan program and how the creation of sign plans can be facilitated through The National Trails Intermountain Region Geographic Information Systems. This represented the National Park Service in 186 poster was displayed to a conference that compliance reviews for external undertakings had 17,000+ attendees. with potential to affect one or more of nine • Participated in various GIS workgroups national historic trails. Some of the key including the New Mexico Geographic undertakings are identified by trail (see the Information Council, Utah Information Trail Administration section). Many of the Council, Salt Lake Users Group, New undertakings were energy development projects Mexico Geographic Alliance, Trails led by the Bureau of Land Management and/ Consortiums, National Trail System Data or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Collection Initiative, and the Federal Trail NTIR’s role is to help the federal lead agency Data Standards Interagency Group. avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse impacts and

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4247 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT These overland trail ruts in the Nebraska Sand Hills, near Sutherland, were

a primary pathway for the Oregon, California, and Pony Express national

historic trails. They are under imminent threat as a result of a proposed

transmission line from the Nebraska Public Power District’s R-Project.

• Riley Ridge CO2 Pipeline in Wyoming The dramatic growth of transmission line projects in the southwest, such as (cooperating agency) this one in Utah, has impacted many areas along the Old Spanish National • Continental Peak Grazing Fences and Historic Trail. Exclosures in Wyoming • Pipeline Replacement on Sublette Cutoff effects to the national historic trails. Partners in Wyoming consisted of the various land management • Cooper Spur-Government Camp Land agencies, primarily the Bureau of Land Exchange in Oregon Management, Tennessee Valley Authority, • Utah State Institutional Trust Lands US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Administration solar proposal and the US Army Corps of Engineers. • BLM Rock Springs, Wyoming Field Office Resource Management Plan Revision Specifically, the National Trails Intermountain (cooperating agency) Region participated in the following • Long Canyon Gold Mine in Nevada undertakings with potential to affect the • Centennial Reservoir project in California national historic trails: • Tennessee Valley Authority Transmission • Nebraska Public Power District System Vegetation Management Plan Transmission Line R project • Interstate 10 Corridor Project in California • Boardman to Hemingway Transmission • Rio Grande Forest Plan Revision Line in Idaho and Oregon in Colorado • Gateway West Segments 8 and 9 in Wyoming/Idaho (cooperating agency)

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4347 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT The National Trails Intermountain Region Trail, and the Old Spanish National Historic represented the National Park Service in Trail. (These corridors were mandated by the compliance activities on the Section 368 Energy Energy Policy Act of 2005.) Partner included the Corridor Designation Project, with potential Bureau of Land Management. to affect the following seven national historic Members of NTIR’s Cultural Resources Team trails: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro initiated a series of monthly Compliance E-blasts National Historic Trail, El Camino Real de for distribution to trail partnership organizations, los Tejas National Historic Trail, California to encourage awareness, responsibility, and National Historic Trail, Oregon National information sharing on all nine national historic Historic Trail, Mormon Pioneer National trails concerning federal undertakings and other Historic Trail, Pony Express National Historic potential threats to the trails. Partners included all trail partnership organizations.

ROUTE 66 CORRIDOR preservation needs and strategies, and to PRESERVATION PROGRAM facilitate collaboration among the states. The Congress created the Route 66 Corridor program provides technical and financial Preservation Program to preserve and assistance to preserve the most significant and commemorate the special places and stories representative historic properties dating to the of the American icon, Route 66. The program highway’s period of historic significance (1926- works with the eight states through which 1985). It also assists with preservation planning, the route passes to raise awareness about the research, and educational initiatives. history and significance of the route, identify

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4447 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Cost-share grants resulted in the rehabilitation of the Tropics Coffee Shop marquee in Lincoln, IL (left) and an assessment and evaluation of Route 66’s historic bridges (right).

KEY COOPERATORS/PARTNERS: Local, 2017 New Mexico Hispanic Heritage state, federal, and tribal agencies, Route 66 of Route 66 story map project. Helped associations, statewide preservation organize a presentation, by another intern, organizations, educational institutions, State of the Route 66 Hispanic Heritage project at Historic Preservation Offices, departments UNM’s Zimmerman Library. of transportation, environmental protection • Facilitated the ongoing development agencies, the Road Ahead Initiative, private of Research Route 66, an organization individuals, and others. with representatives from ten archival institutions. Also, organized the group’s KEY NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE ROUTE annual meeting, which was sponsored by the 66 CORRIDOR PRESERVATION PROGRAM IN New Mexico Route 66 Association. FY 2017 INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING: • Provided organizational support to Route 66 • Successfully worked with the periodical Road Ahead Partnership, which was Southern California Quarterly to publish organized to represent advocates in all eight an article that, among other conclusions, Route 66 states. identified Negro Motorist Green Book sites • Developed a memorandum of understanding along Route 66 in the Los Angeles area and to increase projects with American Indian their relationship to segregation patterns. Tribes, partnering with the American Indian • Provided project coordination, review, and Alaska Native Tourism Association. guidance to the Latino Heritage Internship Program UNM intern for the summer

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4547 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Cost-share grants in 2017 assisted partners with the development of a database for Texas historic properties in Texas (above), a documentary about

“Women on the Mother Road” (below), and the restoration of the Wilder’s

Steak House marquee in Joplin, MO (right).

• Oversaw the completion of the California by the DIGIT Lab. These alignments were Route 66 Historic Property and Road placed in map books that gave partners the Alignment Survey (Outer Metro Region), opportunity to review the mapped data and written by the California Preservation give feedback about the alignment before Foundation. The same foundation began the alignment was finalized. work on the California Route 66 Historic • Monitored the completion of the Arizona Property and Road Alignment Survey Route 66 Roadbed Survey, written by the (Metro Region). Arizona Department of Transportation, and • Digitized hundreds of maps and gathered assisted the New Mexico Department of various data from outside sources, such as Transportation and the New Mexico State state transportation departments, to create University with the New Mexico Route 66 a comprehensive alignment for Route 66 Road Alignment Survey.

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 4647 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT TABLE 4. ROSI Cost Share Projects FY 2017

Grant Name Project Description Cost Share Partner Match Texas Route 66 Historic Resurvey of a 2002 historic building $13,532 $18,668 Property Online Database survey, plus conversion of findings to an online database Route 66 Bridge Assessment Development and implementation of $7,550 $24,784 and Prioritization Project a framework to prioritize bridges for preservation along Route 66. The Women on the Mother Film will explore the Route 66 corridor $25,000 $25,000 Road: Documentary Film from women’s perspective Trucking on Route 66 Oral interviews with 20 people, $5,105 $5,697 in Missouri Oral History recording experiences and stories of the Project Route 66 trucking industry Online Educational Guide to Creating a comprehensive online $6,000 $6,484 Route 66 in California educational resource about the route, and points of interest, in California Wilder’s Neon Sign Restoration/Relighting of a Rooftop $24,000 $24,000 Restoration Project Restaurant Marquee in Joplin, MO Tropics Neon Sign Moving, Restoration, and Interpretation $17,000 $28,500 Restoration Project of a Restaurant Marquee in Lincoln, IL Total $98,187 $133,133

• Mentored Hispanic Legacy of Route 66 Route 66 Interpretive Guidelines, 2) the Intern, at the University of New Mexico continued development of the ROSI GIS for the third consecutive summer. The database, 3) maintaining the ROSI website, Latino Heritage Internship Program’s 4) overseeing the annual cost share grant student involvement was sponsored by program (see table 4), and 5) serving as a Environment for the Americas. Section 106 consulting party for a number • Other ROSI-related accomplishments of proposed development projects. included 1) development of the draft

NATIONAL TRAILS INTERMOUNTAIN REGION 47 FY2017 SUPERINTENDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT Happy Trails