South Park National Heritage Area Management Plan

The completed draft of the South Park National Heritage Area Management Plan is now available for public review and comment. As we move forward in the approval process, we encourage you to review the Management Plan and send us your thoughts by December 14, 2012. You may also call NPS historian Shirl Kasper at (303) 969-2232 to request a hard copy of the Management Plan. We look forward to hearing from you.

National Heritage Areas are designated by Congress as places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape. Through their resources, Heritage Areas tell nationally important stories that celebrate our nation's diverse heritage. Heritage areas are lived-in landscapes.

Completion of a Management Plan is required by the authorizing legislation (Public Law 111-11. Section 8003) for the South Park National Heritage Area. The Management Plan describes the Heritage Area's management structure, boundaries, duties, mission, goals, and prohibition on the acquisition of real property. The Plan incorporates an inventory of the Heritage Area's natural, cultural, and recreational resources, and includes comprehensive policies, strategies, and recommendations for conservation, funding, management, development, and promotion of the Heritage Area. The Plan outlines a program of implementation for the Management Plan and describes actions that governments, private organizations, and individuals have agreed to take to manage and protect Heritage Area resources. Sources of funding for carrying out the Plan are identified, and an analysis of and recommendations for coordinating Federal, State and local programs presented. The Management Plan also includes an interpretive plan for the Heritage Area.

Topic Questions:

1. Do you support the draft plan, or do you have any issues or concerns?

Document Content:

South Park National Heritage Area Management Plan   (40.8 MB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.