Funded thanks to the Oregon Historic Trails Fund
Spring 2021: Education and Interpretation Coordinator is hired, low elevation trail marker surveying completed by agency staff, SWR Working Group convened with representatives from community stakeholders
Summer 2021: Program kickoff with a SWR speaker event (event details here!), ethnographic information gathering from communities in the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon, agency staff to create complete GPS map of trail route, trail work to be completed by volunteers, Tombstone Trailhead reroute work to be completed, volunteers to survey trail for additional wayfinding signage needs, SWR Working Group to begin updating interpretive plan
Fall 2021: SWR Working Group to review gathered historical information and update interpretive plan, milepost replacement/refurbishment, additional wayfinding signage installed, teacher guide development, accessibility survey of trail segments
Winter 2021: GPS map completed and released, interpretive panel planning begins for Sweet Home Ranger District segments, coordination with private land owners to attempt to connect trail segments