California-Nevada Chapter
Oregon-California Trails Association

The California-Nevada Chapter is one of eleven chapters of the Oregon-California Trails Association, an organization dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and enjoyment of all Trans-Mississippi migration trails to the West, the trails that made the United States an ocean-to-ocean nation.


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Beckwourth Trail Mapping Team

After a couple of cancelled outings due to bad weather, the Beckwourth Trail Mapping Team finally hit the trail May 2 & 3. Under the direction of Plumas County Museum Director Scott Lawson and Plumas National Forest Archaeologist Dan Elliott, the first day they “paid their dues,” cutting a veritable jungle of manzanita from what appeared to be a “commerce” road from Elizabethtown uphill to the known Emigrant Trail so they could metal detect.  The second day the group followed the Beckwourth Trail as it is presently mapped and near the base of the first hill found wagon wheel parts and several cut nails. Not much else was found until later in the afternoon when once again hand-hewn metal pieces were located. More to come in the next issue of Trail Talk.

If you’d like to join the team during the rest of the summer, contact Dick Waugh at camalobo@comcast.net.


NEW - Wagons

 

Tentative Dates for 2012

Chapter Board of Directors Meeting, Carson City, Nevada           


April 27
CA-NV Chapter Spring Symposium, Carson City, Nevada April  28 & 29

Beckwourth Emigrant Trail (BET) Mapping Team Field Outings
Quincy, CA         


March 7 & 8
April 4 & 5
May 2 & 3
June 6 & 7
July 11 & 12
August 1 & 2
September 5 & 6
October  3 & 4
November 7

Johnson's Cutoff Mapping Team Field Outings
Placerville, CA


Jan. 11&12
Feb. 15 & 16
March 21 & 22
April 18 & 19
May 16 & 17
June 20 & 21
July 25 & 26
August 22 & 23
Sept. 12 & 13
October 10 & 11
Nov. 1
Carson Trail Annual Cleanup and Trail Marking Outing
More Information to follow in Trail Talk
July 30 & 31

OCTA National Convention, Lawrence, Kansas

              


August 6 - 11

Annual Fernley Swales Clean up and Field Day
Fernley, Nevada

More Information about the clean up

  
Sept. 29
E-Mail canvocta@gmail.com for more information about activities

 

2011 Year in Review

CA/NV Spring Symposium
Quincy, California
April 29, 30 & May 1
National Convention
Rock Springs/Green River, Wyoming
August 7 - 13
CA-NV Chapter Workshop on Computerized Mapping August 27 & 28
Carson Cleanup - West Pass Hike September 12 & 13
Hike at Slippery Ford and Johnson's Cutoff Tour
September 14 & 15
Fernley Deep Sand Swales Historic Preservation
Easement Annual Cleanup

October 1
Johnson Cutoff Mapping Team April to October
Grizzly Flat Mapping Team May to September
OCTA Members Participate in Lassen NF Passport in Time Project June 27 - July 1
 

 

Updated:4/18/2012

 
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