• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Park Planning

Rio Grande Autumn
Rio Grande Autumn
NPS Photo/Blake Trester
 
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.
 

Park Plans

General Management Plan - approved May 2004
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 March 1997 [3.68mb pdf file]

 

Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) Statements

Construct New Multi-Use Trail at Panther Junction
Environmental Assessment - December 2010 [99kb pdf file]

Construct New Multi-Use Trail at Panther Junction
Finding of No Significant Impact - February 2012 [1.16 mb pdf file]

Did You Know?

Desolate desert graves

More than 300 graves lie within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park. Most of the dead are unknown. Some died of old age and a few were murdered. Though some early settlers exploited the land, their tremendous fortitude and courage can never be denied. More...