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Newsletter		 GENERAL MANAGEMENT
PLAN		 Spring
2001

New Dates for GMP Planning Steps and Schedule
General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement


PLANNING ACTIVITYPUBLIC PARTICIPATION
1 Gather Data and Establish Goals for Future
  • Reaffirm the legislative purposes of the park
  • Identify and study park's significant features
  • Develop goals and objectives for park's future
  • Determine planning issues and concerns
  • Conduct public scoping meetings
  • Late Spring 2000
  • Read first newsletter
  • Attend scheduled public meetings
  • Submit written comments

2 Develop Alternatives
  • Suggest a range of alternatives to achieve goals, address issues, and solve problems
  • Develop alternatives working with agencies, community members, and tribes
  • Fall 2001
*We Are Here
  • Read this newsletter
3 Prepare and Publish a Draft GMP/EIS
  • Refine alternatives
  • Analyze environmental impacts associated with each alternative and identify a preferred alternative
  • Distribute draft GMP/ElS for public review and comment
  • Winter 2002
  • Attend public meetings
  • Read third newsletter
  • Review draft GMP/EIS
  • Agency review
4 Revise Draft and Publish Final GMP/EIS
  • Develop final GMP/EIS based on public response to the draft GMP/EIS and other relevant information
  • Revise preferred alternative as appropriate
  • Final GMP/EIS distributed to public
  • Summer 2002
5 Begin Implementation
  • Work with agencies, community, and tribes on partnership activities
  • Request funding for major capital improvements and program initiatives
  • Develop any required legislative proposals
  • Fall 2002
  • Work with agencies, community members, and tribes on partnership activities

sketch of Ebey's Landing

In This Issue


OH BEAUTIFUL PRAIRIE

Oh beautiful prairie
How did you come to be?
Tell me your story,
Of how you came to be.

I will tell you my story
Of how I came to be,
I started under a glacier
that sat on top of me.

It pushed me out of the way,
It made my hills you see today,
It made a hollow deep and wide
and sat there a long, long time.

And finally the sun came and melted it away,
It left behind a beautiful lake
That many years ago dried up to make,
The prairie you see today.

Emma Ruggiero

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Last Updated: 12-May-2001