As a standard component of a park's general management planning process, park managers and planners pause to reflect on the very foundation upon which a unit of the National Park System (NPS) was established. This starts with a review of the park's enabling legislation and its latest General Management Plan (GMP), followed by a period of public scoping. At Fire Island National Seashore, several meetings and workshops over the past years have also helped planners create these foundation documents.

We are always interested in hearing your thoughts about Fire Island National Seashore's new GMP process. At various times, you may share your reactions during the planning process.

Fire Island Communities Civic Engagement Roundtable

In the summer of 2006, Fire Island National Seashore undertook a civic engagement project in advance of the park's new GMP. This report summarizes the results and conveys the spirit generated from this historic meeting between the park and its community stakeholders.

•  July 2006  Fire Island Communities Civic Engagement Roundtable
  The Lauren Kristy Excursion
  July 30, 2006

A Stakeholders' Foundation Workshop was conducted by the National Park Service in June 2007. This workshop was planned as an opportunity for the GMP planning team to solicit input from a variety of citizens representing a range of communities and interest groups.

Approximately 40 people attended the two-day event. These included community leaders, property and business owners, elected officials, municipal employees, and representatives from friends groups and environmental organizations.

• June 2007 Summary Report
  Stakeholders' Foundation Workshop
  June 25-26, 2007

The Interim Report summarized public scoping, draft purpose and significance statements, and reviewed the project schedule at that point in time.

• Winter 2007/08: Fire Island National Seashore GMP Interim Report

Several additional workshops were conducted from December 2007 through March 2008.

• December 2007: Interpretive Themes Workshop
• January 2008: Sustainability Workshop
• January 2008: Visitor Experience and Transportation Workshop
• March 2008: Marine Resources Workshop

The public comment period for the preliminary management alternatives has ended, but feedback is always welcome.

Following two years of behind-the-scenes data collection and analysis, park planners released for public review and comment a draft of their preliminary management alternatives.

Fire Island National Seashore GMP Newsletter 2, April 2010 Preliminary Management Alternatives was available for public review and comment from April 24 through September 6, 2010.

This newsletter describes draft proposed management alternatives for the park. Public input is critical at this point to assist the National Park Service in refining the alternatives for presentation in a formal Draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/EIS), and the identification of the NPS preferred alternative.

April 2010: Preliminary Management Alternatives

A separate set of preliminary management alternatives was drafted for the William Floyd Estate. Comments about the content in this newsletter are being accepted from September 21 through October 31, 2011.

• September 2011: William Floyd Estate Preliminary Management Alternatives

For More Information
Contact Us or send your comments to:
fire_island_gmp@nps.gov

• Follow the progress at the National Park Service's Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) web site: Fire Island General Management Plan