2008 Projects

Foundation Website

Time and effort has been put into rebuilding our website from the ground up. We've added more educational content, information on our past, present and future projects, and updated event calendar.

Camas Meadows

Silouettes depicting the raiding of the army pack string highlight the entrance to the battleground. Metal silouettes designed and created by Dan Jones of Steel and Ranch Supply in Salmon, Idaho and funded by the City of Dubois.

When completed, the site will feature a kiosk at the battlefield entrance with new signage.

New signage depicting the locations of the Rifle Pits will be installed there, and the contribution of Bugler Brooks will be featured on a new sign at the gravesite.

Also included will be the re-dedication of Bernard A. Brooks' ("Bugler" Brooks) gravesite.

Pictured above: BLM crew identifying the locations
of Rifle Pits with GPS equipment. Crew includes
from left: __, Jim Evans, Bill Boggs, Stan
McDonald and __.

The project is a partnership between the Nez Perce Trail Foundation, the Old Fort Henry, the Gold Loop Scenic Byway and Clark County Economic Development.

Escape From Clark Fork Canyon

Located at Idlewise on Highway 120 North of Cody, Wyoming, features the Nez Perce Trail Foundation kiosk which has the 1877 War Trail, the Exodus & Captivity Route and the Escape. The project features the Cody Chapter, the Cody BLM Office, and the Idlewise Store.

Appaloosa Horse Club Museum

The Appaloosa Horse Club Museum will feature these three signs depicting the relationship between the Nez Perce National Historic Trail and the Chief Joseph Trail Ride.

Reed & Bowles Trading Post
Lewistown, MT

Birch Creek

BLM work crew preparing a new kiosk site at Birch Creek.

The Birch Creek Project will feature a Scenic Byway Kiosk. at Birch Creek Campground on US Highway 28 and will serve as the gateway for the Sacajawea Byway. The project partners are the Sacajawea Byway, City of Leadore, the Fort Hall Shoshone-Bannock. The site will feature the Nez Perce Trail Birch Creek Incident. It also will be the gateway for the Nez Perce Trail to Bannock Pass where the 3-Sided kiosk will feature the Nez Perce Trail crossing into Idaho and the co-junction with the Continental Divide Trail.

Big Hole Battlefield

Work Crew included (from left):

Newly installed hitchin' post at the West Entrance.

Interpreting the West Entrance to the Battlefield in cooperation with the National Parks Service, the University of San Diego Extension at Sacramento California, interpretive signs and a new gate. Replaced by a work crew of history teachers who were taking Duane Hauges' class on the Nez Perce Trail.

The West Entrance will serve as a terminus for this newly constructed portion of the Nez Perce Trail from Gibbons Pass to the West Entrance. The route was constructed by a youth trail crew from the Nez Perce Tribe.

New signage gives an overview of the battle site.

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The Nez Perce Trail Foundation
194 Hwy 28
Salmon, Idaho 83467
(208) 940-0053
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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary
of the National Trails System
1968-2008