Comment period extended for Old Spanish Trail

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The National Park Service National Trails
Intermountain Region and the Bureau of Land Management Utah State Office are extending the public review period to Oct. 17, 2016 for the Old Spanish National Historic Trail Comprehensive Administrative Strategy.
This new strategy document will guide administration of the trail for the next 15 to 20 years.
Key proposals in the strategy include establishing the purpose of the trail and an inventory of important cultural areas, known as high potential sites
and segments. The document also includes a clear strategy for how the NPS and BLM will comply with the National Trails System Act through future administrative and planning efforts.
Congress designated the Old Spanish National Historic Trail in 2002 to recognize the national significance of the notoriously arduous trail that traders used to transport goods between Santa Fe, New Mexico and present
day Los Angeles, California from 1829 to 1848. The trail passes through New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and represents a time of economic and cultural change on Mexico’s far northern frontier and the American Southwest.
For more information and to comment visit:
http://parkplanning.nps.gov/OLSP-DCAS.
Comments may also be provided in writing to: Michael Elliott, National Trails Intermountain Region, National Park Service, PO Box 728, Santa Fe, NM 87504, or by telephone: (505) 988-6015, fax: (505) 986-5214, or email:
michael_elliott@nps.gov.
The NPS and the BLM co-administer the trail together to encourage its preservation and public use. These two federal agencies work in close partnership with the Old Spanish Trail Association, American Indian tribes,
state, county, and municipal government agencies, private landowners, nonprofit groups, and many other partners.