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Oregon-California Trail Marker near Jayhawk Boulevard Traffic Circle at Chi-Rho Fountain ::
http://www2.ljworld.com/search/?q=%22Oregon+Trail%22

Labels: eco-challenge, eco-history, KU GIS Day, OCTA-Trails Marker, Planet U, watershed

Seeking FHWA-MCHS Chouteau Station Wayshowing benchmarks

@ http://minnesotafuturist.pbworks.com/w/search?q=Fur+Trading

The Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
is the community assistance arm of the National Park Service.

RTCA supports community-led
natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation projects.

RTCA staff provide technical assistance to communities
so they can conserve rivers, preserve open space, and develop trails and greenways.

Duluth to MSHS Fur Trading Post by rjburkhart at Garmin Connect - Details

Labels: agritourism, eco-history, MentorshipART, Planet U, social responsibility, watershed

Garmin GPSurvey-Waymarking:

Capture GPSurvey Traceroute
Rename MapSource Active Routes
Show Route on Topo-USA Map
Find Nearest Places
Add Historical Waypoints
Capture Picasa Screen Images
Share PicasaWeb Album
Add Captions & Hyperlinks

Convert to RO/CS Routes:
Export sharable GPX File
Import to MapMyFitness/MapMyRide
Import to NGM Backroads Explorer 3D
Show Elevation Profiles
Capture Google Maps Collage

Santa Fe Trail Center:
IMLS Conservation Bookshelf Grant, June 2009:

I began collaborating with KAWS-KELP/KVHA-KWO & KSHS Kaw Mission to advocate digital library initiatives via http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/ (mid-2005) …

[A] OCTA-Trails Admin-Manager Travis Boley challenged me to adapt Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Trail as a model for documenting Kaw Valley’s “California Road” stagecoach route from Westport to Lawrence in Aug-2005.

Our KELP Class 6-2005 Advanced Leadership Project hatched the “Ridges of Leavenworth County” to overcome elevation awareness deficiency and to empower Google Maps adding a new “Terrain Tab” plus photo geo-tags!

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=IATR

[B] I represented Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance at Westport’s 2006 National Heritage Alliance (NHA) workshop. KVHA & OCTA-Trails hosted a Mapping Emigrant Trails (MET) workshop at Kanwaka Township Hall (May-2007)

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=Heritage

[C] While enroute to the Sep-2007 Santa Fe Trail Association’s Symposium in Trinidad, I visited Larned, KS. I began seeking more clues about the Canadian-Cimarron River watershed “Lost Legends of La Flecha” …

Contact: Santa Fe Trail Center
1349 K-156 Hwy
Larned, KS 67550
(620) 285-2054
museum@santafetrailcenter.org

Institute of Museum and Library Services:
IMLS Contact: Jeannine Mjoseth
202-653-4632
jmjoseth@imls.gov

[D] SFTA’s Admin-Manager Clive Segal’s invited our adapting Pueblo’s Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) as an “EcoTrekUSA mapXchange” Enviro-Education GPSurvey benchmark for High-TEK GeoScouting & GeoVenturing …

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/2007/10/sfta-social-responsibility-pathfinders.html (Oct-2007)

[E] While supporting the 2008-09 Mormon Battalion Trek reenactment from Weston to Council Grove, I learned Fort Leavenworth’s “supply-chain” route was shifted from the KSHS Grinter Place crossing to Eudora’s Fish Ferry …

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=Mormon

[F] We embedded KVHAdventuring “lessons learned” from Upper Wakarusa Watershed WRAPS stakeholders into our USNPS Freedom’s Frontier NHA Interpretation & Education master planning process via “Caring for the Kaw”

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=FFNHA

[G] I asked Monticello Community Historical Society to focus on trade & transportation “corridors of influence” by focusing on how to most authentically showcase Kaw River’s rope ferry crossings like the 1828 Chouteau Ferry …

See: http://geoventuring-lnt.blogspot.com/search?q=chouteau

Ferries played important role

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Moses Grinter served in the Army at the Leavenworth Cantonment in 1828. ...
"The Chouteau Ferry," also known as "The Cook" and "The Campbell," ...
www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/documents/ferriesplayed.pdf

 Trading Posts, Stores, Mills and Blacksmiths

Chouteau's Trading Post 1828-4?, Cyprian Chouteau, Proprietor ....
trader at Uniontown in 1848, and established a ferry at Tecumseh on the Kansas River in 1854. ...
www.kansasheritage.org/werner/tradpost.html - Cached - Similar

 FutureThought mapXchange: Monticello Community Eco-History

Jun 3, 2011 ... 1828: Frederick Chouteau (grandson of a co-founder of St. Louis)
established a trading post and ferry near Mill Creek. ...
futurethought-mapxchange.blogspot.com/.../monticello-community-eco-history.html - Cached

Corkscrew Swamp Stewardship :: Digital Jaywalker Journal(cc)

Clear Creek Watershed Impact Zones

Labels: distributed learning, eco-challenge, eco-history, geotourism, national heritage trail, Planet U, social geocoding, social responsibility, watershed