MRNP: Wilderness Stewardship Plan Public Scoping

Mt Rainier Nat'l Park is considering potentially major changes to their administrative model.

Check out the Brochure

Public meetings for scoping of the EIS:

The purpose of scoping is to determine the scope of an EIS to ensure that issues are identified early and properly studied.  The result of scoping is to ensure that the draft EIS produced for public review is thorough and balanced. Scoping should identify concerns of both the agency and the affected public and should clearly define environmental issues and alternatives to be examined in the EIS. If there are important environmental or social impacts that the public wants considered, the place to raise these issues is at scoping.

November 16: Seattle Library
November 17: Tacoma Library
November 18: Ashford MRNP Education Center
November 19: Buckley Library

It will likely behoove us to attend these early meetings in order to represent the winter recreationalists.

The link to the brochure downloaded the document to my browser in a way I didn't see it right away (slow on the uptake). Here's a link to the NPS page for the Wilderness Stewardship Plan:

parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsList.cfm?projectID=55349

Anyone interested in NPS wilderness planning should not miss this opinion piece by a forty-year veteran of their bureaucratic BS:

"You will find that there is very little evidence to convict the NPS of the crime of actually protecting wilderness. Most of what they have is interpretive fluff intended to fool the public into believing that the agency is serious about wilderness while it continues to do things that fly directly in the face of the Wilderness Act."

www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2014/10/op...0-years-neglect25790