CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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The final General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for Olympic National Park was released this afternoon.
The release culminates nearly seven years of meetings, discussions and planning, said park superintendent Sue McGill.
The Final GMP establishes a vision for managing the park for the next 15 to 20 years and aims to protect natural and cultural resources
while improving visitor experiences.
A group of cross country skiers make their way along a ridge with the Olympic Mountains as a backdrop.
Key points include:
• Maintaining access to existing developed areas, park trails, campgrounds, and facilities.
• Allowing for improvements to the downhill ski support facilities at Hurricane Ridge, but with no area expansion.
• Seeking additional partnerships to help provide enhanced visitor access and enjoyment (e.g. alternative transit options, expanded interpretive and educational opportunities) and better protection of sensitive resources.
• Boundary adjustments through willing selling purchases or land exchanges to incorporate sensitive resource areas within the park.
• Continued protection of wilderness resources and cultural resources within wilderness.
The Final GMP is a massive 950-page document contained in two volumes. Volume 1 includes the plan alternatives, environmental consequences and extensive background information; Volume 2 contains a summary of public comments and responses to the substantive comments.
After the required 30-day no action period, the Final GMP will be forwarded to the National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director for final approval.
Click here for an online version of the Final GMP/EIS.
Review copies are also available at the Olympic National Park Visitor
Center in Port Angeles, the Olympic National Park Information Station in
Forks and the following area libraries:
The Evergreen State College Daniel J. Evans Library
Kitsap Regional Library, Bremerton Branch
North Olympic Library System Clallam Bay, Forks, Port Angeles, and
Sequim branches
Peninsula College Library
Port Townsend Public Library
Seattle Public Library
Tacoma Public Library
Timberland Regional Libraries, Aberdeen, Amanda Park, Hoodsport, and Hoquiam branches
University of Washington Library
William G. Reed Public Library
Wilson Library, Western Washington University.
Interested individuals and groups may request a CD version of the document by calling 360-565-3004. Limited printed copies of the document are also available by request. For more information about the final plan, call the park at 360-565-3004.
