Hanford Reach National Monument: Comprehensive Plan and Environmental Impact Statement

摘要

This CCP is a landscape-scale plan and addresses what areas are open to what uses. It provides the basis for protection of natural, cultural, scenic and recreational resources, setting the goals that the FWS will strive to meet in management of the Monument. The specific details of those uses and protection mechanisms, and how they will be achieved, will require additional stepdown planning. For example, the management of invasive species--an Integrated Pest Management Plan--was included in the draft CCP as a draft step-down plan for public comment; it will be finalized following the signature of an ROD on this CCP. Other step-down plans will follow on everything from habitat management to visitor use. This document combines both a CCP and an EIS. The draft CCP/EIS was released for review and comment by the public, tribes, special interest organizations, and local, state and federal agencies. Based on the comments received, the FWS modified the draft as necessary and appropriate and selected a final Preferred Alternative.