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Chisholm and Western National Historic Trail Designations

In the spring of 2021, as Norman and I traveled within the borders of the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership proposed National Heritage Area. We set up public meetings and informed people of the intended use of their property. A few of those people informed us of the Chisholm and Western National Historic Trail proposal. It had been repeatedly introduced to Congress since the completion of the Feasibility Study in 2019.

With 30 x 30 having just been confessed to by the administration, Congress withdrew the attempt by the end of 2021. Only to have it re-introduced to Congress in the spring of 2023.

The special interest groups intent on coveting private property for their own enterprises will continue to pursue legislation at the beginning of every Congressional session. Residents along the trails have requested that resolutions be available for each attempt at trail designation.

Blue dots are counties that have passed resolutions against the trails designation.

Resolutions are listed by the date they pass resolutions.

Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership

Originally called O’Pioneers National Heritage Area

The Regional Cultural Heritage Tourism Plan created for Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership (KNHAP) by students in the Architecture Department of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln under Professor Kim Wilson (Director of Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership) was provided to us on April 15th, 2021, during the question-and-answer portion of the public meeting held at the Bullseye Event Center in Norton, Kansas.

The document was given to us by the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition and authenticated by a KNHAP board member during a County Commissioners Meeting held shortly after the public meeting.

Resolutions are listed by the date they passed resolutions. You can read and download the actual resolutions by clicking this link :
County Resolutions – Western Region Property Rights Coalition

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area

Originally called Bleeding Kansas National Heritage Area

In the spring of 2021, we began informing the counties in the KNHAP jurisdiction that there is an attempt to form a federal jurisdiction, a National Heritage Area.

Shortly after, Angel began taking phone calls from people in the National Heritage Area that was established in 2006, Freedom’s Frontier NHA. By the winter of 2021, Norman too, was being requested for help.
The two most common questions are:
“Does this have anything to do with new zoning regulations coming into our county?” and “Why didn’t we know?”

Seven counties have passed resolutions wanting out of Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. We are petitioning Congress to reduce that federal jurisdiction and the federal land management plan that comes with it, to the area where most of its board members live and where this NHA is focused, Douglas County, Kansas.

Resolutions are listed by the date they pass resolutions. You can read and download the actual resolutions by clicking this link and scroll to the bottom half of the page:
County Resolutions – Western Region Property Rights Coalition

Clay County, KS, June 21, 2021
Coffey County, KS, June 28, 2021
Linn County, KS, September 7, 2021
Osage County, KS, September 13, 2021
Anderson County, KS October 11, 2021
Woodson County, KS February 8, 2022
Neosho County, KS May 19, 2022

We will update this page as more resolutions are passed.

The entire state of Tennessee is in a National Heritage Area.
There are currently 62 National Heritage Areas granting federal jurisdiction to large areas of the United States, with 7 NHAs added by Congress in late December of 2022 in a lame-duck session. There are 30 National Trails that are Units of the National Parks Service. More than 1,400 National Trails are administered by the NPS but are not yet considered National Park Service Units.