OREGON/MORMON PIONEER NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS MANAGEMENT PLAN

OREGON/MORMON PIONEER

NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS

MANAGEMENT PLAN

Bureau of Land Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I - INTRODUCTION

Location and Setting

Background Information

National Historic Trail Designation

National Park Service Responsibilities

Bureau of Land Management Responsibilities

Trail Description

Major Problems and Issues

PART II - MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS

General Management Objectives

Management Constraints

PART III ¨C OREGON/MORMON TRAIL GENERAL

MANAGEMENT POLICY

Limitations of the Management Plan

Split-Estate Lands

Federal Minerals - Private or State Surface

Federal Surface - Private or State Minerals

Protective Corridor Concept

Establishment of Corridor

Requirements for Corridors Segments

Mineral Management

Mineral Leasing

Salable Minerals

Locatable Minerals

Valid Existing Rights

Trail Marking

Inventory Requirements

National Register of Historic Places

Monitoring and Use Supervision

Special Recreation Use Permits (SRUP)

Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Designation

Impacts on Private Landowners

Facilities

Interpretation

Brochure

Standard Land Management Procedures

Volunteers

Land Tenure Adjustment

Cooperative Management Agreements

Other Private Sector Involvement

Cross-Country Trekking

Industrial Use of the Trails

PART IV - THE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Introduction

Management Actions for Trails

Torrington to Independence Rock Segment

Sweetwater/South Pass Segment

Lombard Ferry Segment

Bridger Segment

Bear River Divide Segments

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Mormon/California Trail Segment

Seminoe Cutoff

Lander Road

Sublette Cutoff

Kinney Cutoff

Slate Creek Cutoff

Dempsey-Hockaday Cutoff

Blacks Fork Cutoff

Maintenance

Administration

PART V - IMPLEMENTATION PHASING AND COSTS

APPENDIX I - HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

APPENDIX II - REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

APPENDIX III - MANUAL 8143 REFERENCE AND NTl-85-1

APPENDIX IV - GUIDELINES FOR THE EVALUATION AND PROTECTION OF

HISTORIC WAGON TRAILS.

APPENDIX V -CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF SITES FOR NOMINATION TO THE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES.

APPENDIX VI ¨C MAPS

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 - Route Segments and Cutoffs Included in this Plan

Table 2 - Certified Historic Sites and Landmarks on the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails

in the State of Wyoming.

Table 3 - Certified Segments of the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer

National Historic Trails in the State of Wyoming

Table 4 - Historic Sites on the Oregon and Mormon Trails Presently Listed on the National Register of

Historic Places.

Table 5 - Trail Mileage on Public Land by BLM District.

Table 6 - Implementation Schedule

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 - National Historic Trail Markers

Figure 2 - Trail Marker for a Typical Trail Cutoff. ..

Figure 3 - Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail Official Emblem

Figure 4 - Oregon National Historic Trail Official Emblem

Figure 5 -BLM Sign S-8, Location Indicator.

PART I

INTRODUCTION

LOCATION AND SETTING

This management plan covers the Oregon and Mormon

Pioneer National Historic Trails on the public lands

managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the

State of Wyoming. The trails are located in the Platte

River Resource Area of the Casper District, the Lander

Resource Area of the Rawlins District, and the

Pinedale, Big Sandy, and Kemmerer Resource Areas of

the Rock Springs District.

In April of 1983, an interagency agreement between the

Rocky Mountain Region of the National Park Service

and the Wyoming BLM was completed. The purpose of

the agreement is to provide the basis for cooperation

between NPS and BLM to implement the

comprehensive plan for the Mormon Pioneer National

Historic Trail.

The trail routes across the State of Wyoming are shown

on Map 1. The trail route follows the North Platte River

through most of the Casper District. It follows the

Sweetwater River nearly to South Pass in the Rawlins

District. In the Rock Springs District, the corridor divides

with individual routes and cutoffs leading west,

northwest, and southwest through Fremont, Sublette,

Sweetwater, Lincoln, and Uinta counties.

National Park Service Responsibilities

The land ownership pattern along the trail is diverse. In

the eastern part of the state, little of the trails are on

public lands. In the western part of the state long

stretches of the primary trail routes and major trail

alternatives are on public lands.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

National Historic Trail Designation

In November 1978, with the passage of an amendment

(Public Law 95-625) to the National Trail System Act

(Public Law 90-543), the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer

Trails were designated as National Historic Trails by

Congress. The National Historic Trails System Act, as

amended, places responsibility for administering the

trails with the Secretary of the Interior.

The purpose of National Historic Trail designation is to

identify and protect the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer

Trails, along with their historic remnants and artifacts,

for public use and enjoyment. The National Trail System

Act also directs the Secretary of the Interior to prepare

comprehensive management plans and to adopt

uniform markers for both trails.

The National Park Service was delegated the

responsibility by the Secretary of the Interior to

complete comprehensive management plans for both of

the trails. The plans for both trails were completed in

1981. Both are so-called "umbrella" plans which provide

general management direction for the entire length of

the trails.

The National Park Service has the overall responsibility

to administer the trails and to playa continuing oversight

and assistance role for the various interests involved

with trail management. Those interests include private

landowners, state governments, the U.S. Forest

Service, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Specific National Park Service responsibilities related to

BLM management of the trails are as follows:

1. Encouraging and assisting in the implementation of

the recommendations for the trails as identified in the

comprehensive plans;

2. Encouraging and assisting the BLM to enter into

cooperative agreements with state or local agencies,

private landowners, and private organizations or

individuals for the protection and interpretation of

portions of the two National Historic Trails, either within

or outside federally administered areas;

3. Reviewing all detailed management and use plans

prepared by the BLM for sites and segments of the

trails. Those plans will be reviewed to assure that they

conform generally with the intent of legislation and with

the concepts and guidelines in the National Park

Service Comprehensive Plans;

4. Promulgating and issuing regulations which have

general application along the Oregon and Mormon

Pioneer National Historic Trails;

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