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Elk and Vegetation Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO

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[Federal Register: December 11, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 237)]
[Notices]
[Page 70342]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr11de07-63]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Elk and Vegetation Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact
Statement, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan, Rocky Mountain
National Park.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42
U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park Service announces the availability
of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Elk and Vegetation
Management Plan, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. This Final
Plan analyzes five alternatives, including a no action alternative, to
manage elk and vegetation within the Park. Alternative 3, the preferred
alternative, would use a variety of conservation tools including
fencing, redistribution of elk, vegetation restoration and lethal
reduction of elk (culling). The number of elk removed would vary each
year based on annual population surveys and hunter success outside the
park.

DATES: The National Park Service will execute a Record of Decision
(ROD) no sooner than 30 days following publication by the Environmental
Protection Agency of the Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement.

ADDRESSES: Information will be available for public inspection (1)
online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov, (2) in the office of the
Superintendent, Vaughn Baker, 1000 West Hwy. 36, Rocky Mountain
National Park, Estes Park, Colorado, 80517, 970-586-1206, (3) at all
Rocky Mountain National Park Visitor Centers, (4) at the Estes Park
Public Library, 335 East Elkhorn Ave., Estes Park, Colorado 80517, 970-
586-8116, (5) at the Juniper Library at Grand Lake, P.O. Box 506, 316
Garfield Street, Grand Lake, CO 80447-0506, Phone: 970-627-8353, and
(6) at the municipal libraries in Boulder, Loveland, Longmont, Fort
Collins, and Granby, Colorado.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Therese Johnson, 1000 West Hwy. 36,
Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado 80517, 970-586-1262, 
therese_johnson@nps.gov.

    Dated: September 4, 2007.
Anthony J. Schetzsle,
Deputy Director, Intermountain Region, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. E7-23936 Filed 12-10-07; 8:45 am]
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