North Cascades

Park Management & Wilderness

• Mission, Purpose, and Significance
• Stephen Mather Wilderness in North Cascades National Park Service Complex

  Legislation

• Enabling Legislation
• Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988

  Management Plans

• Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2001-2005
• Annual Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2003
• General Management Plan Superceded for Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and adjacent portion of North Cascades NPSC by the plan below.
• Lake Chelan NRA General Management Plan
  • Executive Summary
  • Proposed (Approved) Action
• High Bridge Ranger Station Historic District Management Plan
• Stehekin Marina Management Plan
• Determination to Prohibit Personal Watercraft
• Fire Management Plan is currently being updated pending approval of the Environmental Assessmentlinked below.
  • Review the current EA on-line at the NPS Planning Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website (http://parkplanning.nps.gov/noca). Select “Fire Management Program Environmental Assessment.” You will find the full text of the EA, an on-line comment form and instructions for submitting on-line comments under the Documents and Links tab.
  • Stehekin Valley Forest Fuel Reduction/Firewood Management Plan
  • Fire Management Plan, North Cascades National Park Service Complex

  Conservation Planning

• Review current EAs on-line at the NPS Planning Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website (http://parkplanning.nps.gov/noca). Select “Restore Vehicle Access on the Stehekin Valley Road" or "Thunder Creek Bridge” to find the full text of the Environmental Assessments.
• Environmental Assessment: Enhance Recreational Opportunities in Ross Lake National Recreation Area.
• McGregor Meadows Environmental Assessment (PDF) Comment period through April 8,2004
• Documents Related to Mountain Lakes Fisheries Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
• Environmental Assessment: Acquisition of Interest in Private Land in the Stehekin Valley, Lake Chelan National Recreation Area
  (Comment period closed June 16, 2003)
  • Finding of No Signficant Impact (July 29, 2003)
• Environmental Assessment on Beaver Pass Snotel
  (Comment period closed September 14, 2001)
• Environmental Assessment on the Stillwell Bridge Replacement
  (Comment period closed April 30, 2001)

  Natural Resource Issues

• Overview of North Cascades Resource Management
• Management of Exotic Plants
• Stehekin Valley Wildfire Management

  Wilderness

• Annual Statistics
  (1993-2000)

  Work Opportunities

• Positions Open for Application or To Be Announced
• Seasonal (temporary) Positions
  Online Application for seasonal park ranger, park interpreter, park guide, visitor use assistant, and biological technician positions.
• Volunteer Opportunities
  

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Last updated May 24, 2005. Close Window