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#FindYourWay on a BLM-managed National Trail with new storymap

This year the Bureau of Land Management, alongside multiple agencies and nonprofit organizations, will celebrate the creation of the National Trails System by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. 

There are currently 30 congressionally designated National Scenic and Historic Trails within the National Trails System, and BLM manages nearly 6,000 miles of 18 designated trails within 15 states. National Scenic Trails provide outdoor recreation opportunities as well as conservation of significant geographic characteristics, such as desert lands and forests. 

Find your next trail adventure on BLM-managed public lands! Through the BLM.gov website, you can view all the recreation activities that are available in particular trails areas, as well as lists contact information to learn more about the trails. 

National Historic Trails, though often scenically appealing and with multiple recreation opportunities, aim to preserve the original routes with travel of national historic significance. The BLM notably manages more miles of National Historic Trails than any other federal land management agency.

As the 50th anniversary approaches, the BLM invites you to connect, explore and discover new special areas located within the BLM's National Scenic and Historic Trails through an ESRI story map, "Authentic Adventures on BLM-Managed Trails." This story map highlights 50 notable sites and segments within the National Trails System, and features a brief background on the site or segment location, a photograph and a link to the relevant recreation info page to find out more.

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Step Back in Time on the Oregon Trail!

#DYK that the Oregon Trail passes through land managed by the Bureau of Land Management? The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was not a road in any modern sense, only parallel ruts leading across endless prairie, sagebrush desert, and mountains. From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Oregon offers living history demonstrations, interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, special events, and more than four miles of interpretive trails.  Using life-size displays, films and live theater presentations, this Center tells the story  of Oregon Trail pioneers, explorers, miners and settlers of the frontier west. The 500 acre site includes remnants of the historic Flagstaff Gold Mine, actual ruts carved by pioneer wagons, and magnificent vistas of the historic trail route.

Check out the Smithsonian Magazine’s guide to the Oregon Trail here, and follow BLM Oregon, Wyoming, and Idaho on social media for more photos and information about the Oregon trail and the history of the American West. 

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Breaking: Ahtna rejects settlement with Walker over Klutina Road

Breaking: Ahtna rejects settlement with Walker over Klutina Road

Gov. Walker met with Ahtna shareholders and village residents of Gulkana as he developed a plan to restrict access to the Klutina Lake area for non-Native Alaskans. Ahtna has subsequently rejected the settlement that it had worked out with the Walker Administration.

Ahtna  has rejected the settlement with the Walker Administration over the public’s historic road access to the Klutina Lake.

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Walker rolls over on access to Klutina Lake fishing grounds

Walker rolls over on access to Klutina Lake fishing grounds

WHITHER THE KLUTINA ROAD

The Walker Administration is negotiating behind closed doors to cut off public access to one of the most popular and unique fishing, hunting and recreation resources in Alaska, the Klutina Lake area.

It is a move that is sure to dismay tens of thousands of Alaskans for whom the area is a deeply important part of their outdoor traditions.

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Three days on the Historic Trails, walking and riding in a covered wagon.

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On this day in 2000, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail became a part of the National Historic Trail System.

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, the “Royal Road of the Interior,” is the earliest Euro-American trade route in the United States. Linking Spain’s colonial capital at Mexico City to its northern frontier in distant New Mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1,600 miles. It was part of Spain’s Camino Real Intercontinental—a global network of roads and maritime routes. 

In the United States, the trail stretched from the El Paso area in Texas, through Las Cruces, Socorro, Belen, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), the first Spanish capital in New Mexico. Today, the trail corridor nurtures an exchange of ideas, customs, and language between Mexico and the American Southwest.

The BLM works closely with the National Park Service to administer the trail and with the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association (CARTA) to develop volunteer opportunities and projects along the trail.

Learn more: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/el_camino_real_de.html

Photos: Bob Wick, BLM

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Happy Birthday, Wyoming! 

On this day in history, Wyoming became the 44th state in 1890. The Bureau of Land Management administers more than 17.5 million acres of public lands and 40.7 million acres of federal mineral estate in Wyoming.

The state's rugged and historic lands are rich in legend of outlaw activity in the late 1800s, most notably Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang. BLM Wyoming manages the Middle Fork, Hole in the Wall and other infamous western sites as well as the longest and most intact segments of the National Historic Trails System which includes 1400 miles of the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, Pony Express and Nez Perce trails

The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Wyoming is a cooperative partnership between BLM, the National Historic Trails Center Foundation and the City of Casper. The Trails Center interprets the significant role of the area’s historic trails in the history of the United States, and seeks to promote public understanding of both America’s western Native cultures and historic westward expansion while highlighting BLM’s role as active stewards of public lands.