Shenandoah Foundation Document Questions

The National Park Service is starting the process of preparing a Foundation Document for planning and management for Shenandoah National Park. The Park would like to invite the public to join in this effort.

A Foundation Document involves revisiting the Park's core purpose and significance, most important resources and values, and the interpretive themes that tell Shenandoah's important stories. The Foundation Document is not a decision-making document and does not include actions or management strategies. It describes a shared understanding of what is most important about the Park. In this capacity, the Foundation Document will reestablish the underlying guidance for future management and planning decisions for Shenandoah National Park. Because many of the Park's original planning documents are out of date, preparing the Foundation Document is the first step for considering Shenandoah's future planning and study needs.

The National Park Service invites you to play a role in charting the Park's future by sharing your thoughts on what is most important about Shenandoah National Park, and to help identify its most pressing threats and its greatest opportunities. Park staff will take your thoughts and feedback into consideration as they prepare the Foundation Document.

Topic Questions Instructions:

We ask that you read and respond to the five questions provided here so that we may take your thoughts into consideration as we develop the Foundation Document for Shenandoah National Park. You may submit your feedback here from March 14, 2014 through April 4, 2014 by responding to five questions about the Park's significance, threats, and opportunities. Thank you for your feedback and your participation in this process!

Topic Questions:

1. What do you and your family value most about Shenandoah National Park?

2. When you visit, what experiences, characteristics or opportunities are most important to you?

3. What should all visitors know about the Park? What are its most compelling stories?

4. What are the greatest issues or threats facing Shenandoah National Park today and in the future?

5. What park characteristics or experiences do you think are the most important to provide to park visitors in the future?

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