Public Lands Case Studies
Arch Canyon Ruin
In 2004, the National Trust provided BLM with the financial support needed to stabilize Arch Canyon Ruin, a major Ancestral Puebloan architectural site situated at the mouth of Arch Canyon, Utah.
Interlaken Resort, Pike-San Isabel National Forest
The National Trust, in conjunction with Colorado Preservation, Inc. and the Forest Service has for several summers organized a group of volunteers to assist in a hands-on preservation project at the Interlaken Resort in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest near Leadville, Colorado. The resort was established in 1879. Between 1883 and 1890, Leadville miner James V. Dexter commissioned the construction of a sixteen-horse stable, servants' quarters, a dance pavilion, and numerous landscape improvements, transforming Interlaken from a small hotel to one of Colorado's premier mountain resorts of the early twentieth century.
Lake Fannin, Caddo National Grasslands
At the Caddo National Grasslands in Texas, National Trust members and staff participated in several volunteer work days at Lake Fannin Organizational Camp as part of the Forest Service Passport in Time program. Built between 1936 and 1938, the CCC-style camp was the first Resettlement Administration (RA) project of its size in the United States and the only one of its kind in Texas.
McGraw Ranch
The Park Service estimates that its maintenance backlog for historic structures is $1.5 billion. This was one reason park managers in Rocky Mountain National Park proposed demolishing fifteen historic buildings at McGraw Ranch.
Plum Orchard
Cumberland Island National Seashore was established as a unit of the National Park Service in 1972, due in large part to the generosity of existing landowners who wanted to save the special character of the island from development and preserve its natural and historic qualities.
Weatherman Draw
In 2002, the National Trust intervened after BLM granted an energy company permission to drill for oil in Weatherman Draw, a valley near Warren, Montana. Following lengthy negotiations between the energy company, tribal representatives, BLM, and the National Trust, the company agreed to waive its development rights and donate its leasehold interest in Weatherman Draw to the National Trust.
