Day: September 18, 2020
Get hold of: Melanie Gunn, 415-464-5131
Issue REYES STATION, Calif. – The National Park Provider (NPS) announces the availability of the final environmental effects statement (EIS) for the Normal Management Program (GMP) Amendment addressing all lands now underneath agricultural lease/allow within Place Reyes Nationwide Seashore and the north district of Golden Gate National Recreation Place. The GMP Amendment evaluates the very long expression uses of much more than 28,000 acres in coastal Marin County.
The EIS analyzes six choices from 20-year agricultural lease/permits with diversification and operational flexibility, to diminished ranching, no dairy ranching, and no ranching options. This EIS also addresses lengthy time period tule elk administration in the scheduling space.
The NPS most well-liked alternate enables current ranch households to keep on beef and dairy functions underneath lease/permits with phrases up to 20 several years. Tule elk in the Drakes Seashore spot would be managed at a secure and practical inhabitants threshold suitable with desired ailments for the scheduling place. The NPS would employ a zoning framework that guards park sources by directing ranching routines to proper areas though letting for operational versatility and diversification. The desired alternate best supports the historic assets and cultural landscapes that are integral to the Position Reyes Peninsula Dairy Ranches Historic District and Olema Valley Dairy Ranches Historic District. Possibilities to boost the visitor experience and a framework for managing visitor capacity are also resolved.
Public and company engagement and feed-back have been vital to the progress and refinement of this plan. The NPS initiated public scoping in the drop of 2018 and gained throughout the 30-day comment interval. The NPS afterwards received when the draft EIS was produced for a 45-working day community assessment and comment interval in the summertime of 2019. The NPS very carefully reviewed, evaluated, and regarded as the community comments in preparing of this closing system, and responses to the comments are integrated as an appendix to the remaining EIS. Further remark periods or public meetings are not planned or required at this phase of the organizing approach.
No quicker than 30 times soon after release of the ultimate EIS, the NPS will document the ultimate conclusion in a History of Decision signed by the Regional Director. For additional facts, please see our GMP Modification Usually Asked Issues, our GMP Modification web-site, and Place Reyes National Seashore’s web site.
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