The Purpose



The purpose of this web page is to provide a resource for a potential community effort to win a National Heritage Area designation for the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho.

The National Heritage Areas program is an element of the U.S. National Park Service. 

The program is premised on the idea that we as a nation cannot put everything of significant historical interest to us into a museum. Sometimes significant historical interest resides in battlefields, towns, or even identifiable regions of the country -- in other words, out-of-doors and in the nation’s landscape.

The NHA program's web page system includes a number of pages and links that offer tools for current and prospective National Heritage Areas, including a "Heritage Areas Toolbox."  The goal of our own page, however, is to provide useful elements specifically relevant to the Coeur d'Alene Mining District.

Our hope is that this page may grow and change as interest in the NHA program increases in our area.

--The Pulaski Project

Eighty percent of the funding for this project and web page was provided by a grant from the Rural Community Assistance program of the United States Forest Service (grant number 04-DG-11010401-050); 20 percent was provided by the Pulaski Project, an organizational element of  the Greater Wallace Community Development Corporation.