Throughout the scoping period, June 27, 2006-September 7, 2006, the National Park Service received 457 public scoping responses (including letters,faxes, emails, comment forms, and public meeting flip-chart notes). Each response from the public was carefully reviewed and individual ideas were identified and assigned a code according to the subject matter. These discrete individual ideas are known as public comments. A total of 4,023 public comments were generated from the letters, faxes, email, and meeting notes received during the scoping process.

Public comments were then grouped into what are called concern statements. These public concerns identify common themes expressed by individuals or groups requesting particular lines of action by the National Park Service. A total of 945 public concern statements were generated from the over 4,000 total public comments.

For more information, read through the Public Scoping Report (1.08 MB PDF).

Below you will find scans of all public scoping comments for this plan. Each file is a PDF (requires Adobe Reader) and varies from 1 MB to 20 MB in size.

• Public scoping comments 1-25 (6.08 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 26-50 (10.8 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 51-75 (4.41 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 76-100 (4.98 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 101-125 (6.08 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 126-150 (3.19 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 151-177 (5.76 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 178-200 (4.37 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 201-214 (4.93 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 215-225 (1.77 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 226-258 (12.76 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 265-286 (17.1 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 287-298 (13.5 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 299-320 (19 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 321-420 (16 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 342-364 (12.7 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 365-385 (5.4 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 421-439 (9.5 MB PDF)
• Public scoping comments 440-457 (5.3 MB (PDF)