Continental Divide National Scenic Trail

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I. General Administration
II. Leadership Council
III. Study Report
IV. National Scenic and Historic Trails Legislative History
V. Special Area Planning and Management References

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I. General Administration

• Leadership Council Charter - 2004
• Vision and Guiding Principles - 2004
• CDTA-New Mexico-Agencies Memorandum of Understanding - 2007
• GIS and Project Proposal Instructions - 2006
• The National Trails System Interagency MOU - 2006
• New Mexico State Trails System Act - 1978
  

II. Leadership Council

III. CDNST Study Report

Study Report 1976 *

• Study Report Map of Existing Travelways *

Potential Addition Final Environmental Statement * - 1977

• Montana-Idaho Map*
• Wyoming Map *
• Colorado Map *
• New Mexico Map *

Secretary to President Designation Recommendation - 1977
Legislative History of National Parks and Recreation Act as it pertains to the CDNST
Creating the CDNST with State Liability Statute Summary - 1981

CDNST Alternative Routes Maps - 1985

• Montana Northern *
• Montana-Idaho *
• Wyoming *
• Colorado *
• New Mexico *

IV. National Scenic and Historic Trails Legislative History

• National Trails System Act (P.L. 90-543) - Amended through March 2009 - (HTML Version)
• National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978
• National Trails System Act of 1968 (Image)*
• Trails for America (Image) 1966 *
• Trails for America (OCR Document - Searchable) 1966 *
• Trails for America Executive Order 13195 - 2001
• National System of Trails HR4865 1967 *
  •      - Stewart Udall, Secretary of Interior and Edward Crafts, Director of the BOR (excerpt)
  •      - John Baker, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Edward Cliff, Chief of the Forest Service (excerpt)
• National System of Trails Senate Hearings S827 1967
  •      - Gaylord Nelson and Peter Dominick, Senators (excerpt)
• National Trails System Senate Report 1233 1968
• National Trails System House Report 1631 1968
• National Trails System Conference Report 1891 1968
• National Trail System Lands Report 98-28 1983
• National Trails System Legislation 98-11 1979-1984
• National Trail System Act Legislative Documents compiled by Steve Elkinton 1999

V. Special Area Planning and Management References

• Numerical Visitor Capacity: A Guide to Its Use in Wilderness - David Cole and Thomas Carlson - 2010
• Capacity Reconsidered: Finding Consensus and Clarifying Differences - Whittaker, Shelby, Manning, Cole, and Haas - 2010
• Parks and Carrying Capacity, Commons Without Tragedy - Manning - 2007
• Visitor Capacity on Public Lands and Waters: Making Better Decisions * - 2006
• Visitor Capacity a Dilemma of Perspective - Haas - 2003
• Carrying Capacity as "Informed Judgment": The Values of Science and the Science of Values - Manning and Lawson - 2002
• Visitor Capacity on Public Lands and Waters: Making Better Decisions - Haas - 2002
• LAC and Related Planning Processes - McCool and Cole - 1997
• Visitor Experience and Resource Protection Handbook - 1997
• Conflicts on Multiple-Use Trails: Synthesis of the Literature and State of the Practice - 1994
• ROS Poster * -1994
• Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) Brochure - 1990
• ROS Project Planning Users Guide - 1987
• Recreation Opportunity Setting as a Management Tool - Stankey, Warren, and Bacon - 1986
• LAC System for Wilderness Planning - Stankey, Cole, Lucas, Peterson, and Frissell - 1985
• Activities, Attitudes, and Management Preferences of Recreationists on the Arctic National Wildlife Range - Warren - 1985
• Wilderness Recreational Carrying Capacity - Washburne - 1982
• ROS Users Guide * -1982
• The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum: A Framework for Planning, Management, and Research - Clark and Stankey - 1979
• Wilderness Management * - Hendee, Stankey, and Lucas - 1978
• Recreation Carrying Capacity Reconsidered - Wagar - 1974
• Wilderness Environmental Quality, Search for Social and Ecological Harmony - Frissel and Stankey - 1972
• Carrying Capacity of Wild Lands for Recreation - Wagar - 1964

• The Built Environment Image Guide - 2002
• Landscape Aesthetics Handbook 701 Complete * -1995
• Landscape Aesthetics Handbook 701 No Appendices *-1995
• Landscape Aesthetics Handbook 701 Appendices * - 1995

• National Trails Data Standards
• Forest Service Manual 2350 - Trails - 2009
• Trail Assessment and Conditions Surveys User Guide * - 2008
• Trails Construction and Maintenance Notebook * - 2007
• CDT Trailhead Design Guidelines * - 2005
• CDT Trailhead Interpretive Plan * - 2005

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