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Camping - including walk-in campsites, no-reservation campsites,
contacting campers about planning issues, campfires, and various campground
amenities
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Climbing - including Camp 4 (Sunnyside Campground), relocation of
Camp 4, climbing and bouldering.
Valley Implementation Plan Issues
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General Planning - including fragmented planning, range of alternatives
offered, and valley and park carrying capacities.
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Transportation - including staging areas, parking areas, electric
buses and alternative transportation options, hours of operation, overnight
vehicles versus day use vehicles and the concern over appropriate alternatives
for personal freedom.
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Resources - including concerns about bears, ecosystem fragmentation,
prescribed fire, air quality, hydrology, noise, cultural and historic issues
such as bridges, orchards, and Native American sites.
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Recreation - including opportunities for walking, biking, hiking,
horseback riding, photography, climbing, hang gliding, rafting, swimming
and the associated issues of access to those activities both physical and
economically as well as issues of personal freedom of choice.
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Facilities - including location of amenities and services, gateway
community issues, commercial services, visitor centers, campground ocations,
campsite numbers, density of campgrounds, auto services and entrance fees.
Yosemite Falls Corridor Plan Issues
This plan had not reached public comment stage and will be evaluated
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Draft Concepts for New Alternatives
We are currently putting together the elements that will form alternatives
for the Yosemite Valley Plan. The following five concept statements
have been developed to guide the formulation of the range of those alternatives
and assist you in providing scoping comments.
Concept 1
The No Action Concept: maintain current conditions and management policies;
facilities and visitor use areas severely damaged or destroyed in the January
1997 flood would not be replaced; approved General management Plan (GMP)
and Concessions Services Plan (CSP) actions would be implemented on a piecemeal
basis depending on funding; traffic impacts would be managed through use
of the Restricted Access Plan (gate closures).
Concept 2
Fulfill the Park's purpose by attaining the optimal balance of GMP
goals: wherever feasible, and to the extent possible, restore, perpetuat,
a enhance the natural, cultural, visitor experience, and scenic values
of Yosemite Valley by removing modifying, reducing, or relocating facilities
and services; regional transit facilities are placed in east-valley (at
Yosemite Village), day-visitor parking in west-valley, and a vehicle management
system is developed.
Concept 3
Achieve GMP goals emphasizing visitor experience and cultural resource
goals but with reduced natural resource benefits: east-valley resource
and visitor experience benefits may be obtained by concentrating regional
transit and minimal day-visitor parking in east-valley and using a vehicle
management sytem: west-valley impacts are avoided.
Concept 4
Achieve GMP goals emphasizing natural resource restoration but with
reduced emphasis on visitor experience benefits: east-valley resource and
visitor experience benefits are obtained by concentrating regional transit,
day-visitor parking, and visitor center and theaters in west-valley and
developing a vehicle management system.
Concept 5
Achieve minimum GMP goals: rebuild facilities to approximate pre-flood
conditions and GMP and CSP numbers to the extent allowed by minimum resource,
visitor experience, and health and safety goals, and develop a vehicle
management system and formalized parking in east-valley but without facilities
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