Historic Preservation in the Cowboy State: Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2016–2026

Executive summary: "Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan guides the actions and sets the priorities for historic preservation in Wyoming through 2026. Developed in consultation with our preservation partners, the plan identifies goals and strategies for addressing seven historic preservation challenges in Wyoming: Historic Preservation Challenge 1: Increase public education and outreach efforts. Historic Preservation Challenge 2: Strengthen historic preservation programs and initiatives to augment existing preservation efforts. Historic Preservation Challenge 3: Preserve and protect cultural resources from the impacts of energy development, population growth, and sprawl. Historic Preservation Challenge 4: Strengthen local community capabilities to identify, evaluate, nominate, protect and interpret historic and cultural resources. Historic Preservation Challenge 5: Identify and protect cultural landscapes. Historic Preservation Challenge 6: Strengthen site stewardship, artifact curation, and record preservation capabilities. Historic Preservation Challenge 7: Unify heritage tourism efforts between agencies at a statewide level. A summary of each of the programs for the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (OWSA) is provided in the plan. Since the publication of our previous plan, progress has been made in achieving the program goals identified in 2007. Accomplishments for each program are discussed and program goals for the next decade are identified. Success stories from preservation partners across the state and from SHPO and OWSA staff are included in the plan. These stories illustrate the variety of ongoing efforts by communities, agencies, and preservation organizations to preserve Wyoming’s history. It is the role of the SHPO to provide leadership in the state in recognizing, preserving, and protecting Wyoming’s significant prehistoric and historic resources; however, no one agency can do it all. Federal, state, tribal and local governments, preservation organizations, and individuals all have important roles to play in achieving the goals identified in the plan. By providing specific goals and strategies, this plan provides a vision and direction for all involved in historic preservation in Wyoming." Funding was provided in part by a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (project number WY-15-13, grant number P15AF00216) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Historic Preservation in the Cowboy State: Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2016–2026

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