On the Road to Preservation: Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2007–2015

Executive summary: "Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan guides the actions and sets the priorities for historic preservation activity in Wyoming through 2015. Developed in consultation with our preservation partners, the plan identifies goals and strategies for addressing historic preservation challenges in Wyoming. Seven challenges are identified and discussed in the plan: Historic Preservation Challenge 1: Strengthen historic preservation programs and initiatives to augment existing preservation efforts. Historic Preservation Challenge 2: Increase public education and outreach efforts. Historic Preservation Challenge 3: Preserve and protect cultural resources from the impacts of energy development, population growth, and sprawl. Historic Preservation Challenge 4: Unify heritage tourism efforts between agencies at a statewide level. Historic Preservation Challenge 5: Strengthen local community capabilities to identify, evaluate, nominate, protect and interpret historic and cultural resources. Historic Preservation Challenge 6: Strengthen site stewardship, artifact curation, and record preservation capabilities. Historic Preservation Challenge 7: Identify and protect cultural landscapes. Members of the preservation community in Wyoming asked us to develop a plan that provided specific planning information for State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) programs they work with on a regular basis. The plan is organized by first providing a summary of each SHPO program followed by goals and strategies for these programs. Success stories, submitted by preservationists from across the state and by SHPO staff, are included throughout 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 road map for all involved in historic preservation in Wyoming." Funding was provided in part by a 2007 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (project number WY-07-23, grant number 56-07-21655) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

On the Road to Preservation: Wyoming’s Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2007–2015

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