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Civilian Conservation Corps workers building the road into the Chisos Basin, mid-1930s

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Big Bend National Park

Park Planning

park planning includes:
General Management Plan Mission Statements		Interpretive Themes Centennial Initiative

NPS/Big Bend National Park

Full Moon at dawn over the Chisos Mountains.

National Park Service prepares a variety of planning and environmental documents to help guide it in managing park resources. These documents can range from site-specific impact analyses on facility locations, specific use-type such as backcountry or river use, to broader park-wide plans for future use and management of the park, such as the General Management Plan.

Other Plans
Backcountry Management Plan—approved December 1995 [5.12mb PDF File]
Comprehensive Interpretive Plan—approved October 2004 [252kb PDF File]
Fire Management Plan—approved October 2005 [3.02mb PDF File]
Recreational River Use Management Plan—approved October March 1997 [3.68mb PDF File]


			Did You Know? Wright Mountain, 6,041 feet (1,841 meters), is named for George Wright, head of the National Park Service's wildlife division in the 1930s. Wright visited the area several times in the 1930s. He and Yellowstone Superintendent Roger Toll were killed in a car accident leaving the Big Bend in 1936.

Last Updated: September 02, 2007 at 17:14 EST