HistoriCorps is a Party to a National MOU

On April 19, Thomas Tidwell, Chief of the United State Forest Service, lent his signature to a ground-breaking partnership among federal agencies and private sector organizations involved with youth, conservation, education, and historic preservation. The purpose of the partnership, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), is “to document the cooperation between the parties to facilitate the planning and execution of mutually beneficial projects and activities related to preservation of historic structures, sites, artifacts, landscapes, and other resources and to conduct heritage education at the national, regional, and local levels …”

Mr. Tidwell’s signature is the culmination of several years of effort by two of the founders of HistoriCorps, Ann Alexander Pritzlaff and Ann Baker Easley. They brought federal agencies who manage public lands containing thousands of significant historic resources together with private sector organizations who have the wherewithal to preserve these resources.

For all our friends of HistoriCorps, this is exciting news, and we look forward to working with our new partners to introduce more and more people to the wonderful world of preservation, and doing it in some of the most beautiful places on earth. You can read the full MOU here.

Duncan Cabin & Duncan, CO

Duncan CO, A short-lived town on the edge of the Great Sand Dunes

The history of Duncan started in 1874 when John Duncan followed an old trail over Medano Pass into the San Luis Valley. At the mouth of Pole Creek, he discovered some “float,” or gold-bearing ore, that had washed down from the mountains. He constructed a durable cabin … read the article

HistoriCorps receives prestigious National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award

USDA Forest Service HistoriCorps Program to Receive Preservation … Washington, D.C.—The National Trust for Historic Preservation will present its Preservation Honor Award to the HistoriCorps program in Golden, Colo. …

Colorado’s HistoriCorps Received National Award -  HistoriCorps, which was launched in 2009 by Colorado Preservation, Inc., the U.S. Forest Service and Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, was one of 23 national …

Volunteers Give Double Dee Ranch a New Life

MEETEETSE, Wyo. — The Double Dee Ranch had seen better days. Rooftops had collapsed under the weight of snow. Logs had begun to rot. Windows were broken.

Hardworking volunteers restore Colorado historical cabin

BY: Stan Moyer

CRESTONE—The less than 1000 square-foot log cabin is approximately 131 years old, but even before a volunteer restoration effort started late this summer, the log cabin’s roof was still present. The founder John Duncan of the late 1800’s settlement of Duncan, Colorado, occupying territory about 10 miles southeast of Crestone, owned the structure. Since after 1900, it was the only complete building left of the mining and Gold Rush town that had an estimated two to three thousand inhabitants during the 1880’s and 1890’s

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