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Buffalo National River » Steel Creek Horse Camp Managment Plan
The purpose of this project is to improve the Steel Creek Horse Camp with upgrades that will have a positive impact on public safety, provide a better visitor experience, reduce potential impacts on surface and ground waters from animal waste, and better utilize existing facilities in the area. The need for the project is to remedy issues with manure handling, vehicle parking, lack of privacy and seperation of campsites, and lack of use of facilities important to the landscape of Steel Creek.
* indicates the current step in the planning process
Step 1. Develop purpose and need *
Step 2. Conduct external scoping
Step 3. Develop alternatives based upon scoping
Step 4. Refine alternatives based upon initial analysis
Step 5. Identify environmental impacts and select preferred alternative
Step 6. Prepare draft plan and environmental document
Step 7. Provide for public review of plan and environmental assessment
Step 8. Analyze public comments
Step 9. Prepare final plan and decision document
Step 10. Release final plan and decision document to public
Through this process, Buffalo National River will achieve the goals of the National Environmental Policy Act to:
1. Fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.
2. Assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.
3. Attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences.
4. Preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritage, and maintain an environment which supports diversity, and a variety of individual choice.
5. Achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit high standards of living and a wide sharing of lifes amenities.
6. Enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum attainable recycling of depleted resources.
* indicates the current step in the planning process
Step 1. Develop purpose and need *
Step 2. Conduct external scoping
Step 3. Develop alternatives based upon scoping
Step 4. Refine alternatives based upon initial analysis
Step 5. Identify environmental impacts and select preferred alternative
Step 6. Prepare draft plan and environmental document
Step 7. Provide for public review of plan and environmental assessment
Step 8. Analyze public comments
Step 9. Prepare final plan and decision document
Step 10. Release final plan and decision document to public
Through this process, Buffalo National River will achieve the goals of the National Environmental Policy Act to:
1. Fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.
2. Assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.
3. Attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences.
4. Preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritage, and maintain an environment which supports diversity, and a variety of individual choice.
5. Achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit high standards of living and a wide sharing of lifes amenities.
6. Enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum attainable recycling of depleted resources.