Tuesday, August 5, 2008

National Park Service Funding


Howdy. I am at the National Convention of the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) in Nampa, Idaho. Yesterday I drove across the trail, stopping at the Three Island Crossing Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Glenns Ferry, Idaho. Right now I am at the OCTA National Board meeting. We are listening to reports of trails activities supported by the National Park Service and this gives me a good opportunity to say THANK YOU to the NPS and the Long Distance Trails Office for the support of In Pursuit of a Dream.

We have received more than $55,000 in NPS funding for the filming itself and for development of a new Web site that eventually will have educational curriculum materials as well as photos and video from across the trail. (Keep watching this site for updates!)

Sitting behind me now are many of our NPS partners and we certainly appreciate their continued support of OCTA and more specifically of In Pursuit of a Dream!

--Candy Moulton

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I second Candy's comments. Working with Superintendent Aaron Mahr & his staff (especially Lee Kreutzer in the Salt Lake City office, who spent countless hours both on the phone with me & in sending emails back & forth to put this funding in place) is truly one of the delights of this job. Our NPS partners deserve all the thanks & praise we can offer.

Travis Boley
OCTA Association Manager
Independence, Missouri