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• Charter for the Federal Interagency Council on Trails Includes a 2001 update. (Word Doc 18 KB)
• National Trails System: Annual Report for FY 2011 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System in fiscal year 2011 that relate to a 6-agency Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2006. (PDF 544 KB)
• National Trails System: Annual Report for FY 2010 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System in fiscal year 2010 that relate to a 6-agency Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2006. (PDF 1.3 MB)
• National Trails System: Annual Report for FY 2009 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System in fiscal year 2009 that relate to a 6-agency Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2006. (PDF 856 KB)
• National Trails System: Annual Report for FY 2008 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System in fiscal year 2008 that relate to a 6-agency Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2006. (PDF 445 KB)
• National Scenic and Historic Trails Accomplishments 2001-2005 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System that relate to a 5-agency Memorandum of Understanding originally signed in 2001. In this period, not only were new trails added to the system, but many miles of trail corridor were developed and protected. (PDF 3.5 MB)
• Trails for America In 1966 the US Department of the Interior issued the seminal booklet, Trails for America, that became an important foundation document to the National Trails System Act passed two years later in 1968. (PDF 10.12 MB)
• Trails for All Americans A national trails agenda formed by a private-public task force. Some recommendations are now dated, but the basic vision of integrated trails systems available to all, health benefits, interagency collaboration, protected resource corridors, and trails as infrastructure is still valid today. (PDF 5.15 MB)
• The Bartram Trail, National Scenic/Historic Trail Study (1982) (PDF 46.3 MB)
• Captain John Smith, Chesapeake National Historic Trail Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment (2006) (PDF 52.6 MB)
• Daniel Boone Final National Trail Study (1983) (PDF 7.8 MB)
• The Iditarod Trail (Seward-Nome Route) and other Alaskan Gold Rush Trails (1977) (PDF 18.8 MB)
• Juan Bautista De Anza National Trail Study, Alternatives Study (1985) (PDF 15.4 MB)
• Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, Comprehensive Management and Use Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement (1996) (PDF 125.91 MB)
• The Lewis and Clark Trail: Final Report to the President and to the Congress (1969) (PDF 8.31 MB)
• The Mormon Trail: A Study Report (1978) (PDF 4.27 MB)
• The Oregon Trail: A Potential Addition to the National Trails System (1977) (PDF 86.5 MB)
• The Pony Express Stations of Utah in Historical Perspective (1979) (PDF 1.57 MB)
• Potomac Heritage Trail: A Trunk Trail in The Nationwide System of Trails (1965) (PDF 33.3 MB)
• The Santa Fe Trail: A National Scenic Trail Study(1976) (PDF 2.57 MB)
• A Brief History of the Selma to Montgomery March (1983) (PDF 7.04 MB)
• Selma to Montgomery National Trail Comprehensive Management Plan Alternatives Study (2000) (PDF 7.8 MB)
• Selma to Montgomery National Trail Study (Draft) (1993) (PDF 7.02 MB)
• Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail: Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Statement (2004) (PDF 4.47 MB)
• Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail: Foundation Document(2012) (PDF 2.66 MB)