Federal Recognition Sought For Trail

Sat., March 27, 1999

Laura Shireman Staff writer

We’ve got the Centennial Trail; why not go for the Millennium Trail?

City Councilman Clay Larkin wants to apply to a federal program to make the Centennial Trail in Idaho one of 52 trails from each state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico that will be designated Millennium Trails.

The Millennium Trails program is meant to “celebrate, recognize and be a catalyst for creating trails to honor the past and imagine the future as part of America’s legacy for the year 2000,” according to the U. S. Department of Transportation, one of the program developers.

Other program developers are the White House Millennium Council, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Park Service, the U. S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Commerce.

The designation could also bring in more money for the trail.

“I really want to see the Centennial Trail submitted and selected for that trail to get the federal recognition,” Larkin said at the City Council meeting last week.

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