Preliminary Alternatives for Climbing and Canyoneering Management Plan

The National Park Service has been working on a Climbing and Canyoneering Management Plan for Arches National Park. The purpose of this plan is to document current conditions and present a strategy for responding to the increasing visitor use, possible resource impacts, and potential user conflicts associated with rock climbing and canyoneering in areas within Arches National Park. This plan will provide direction for the management of natural and cultural resources and wilderness values within the context of visitor use and impacts from climbing and canyoneering activities.

As a part of the planning effort the park is considering a range of alternatives to resolve pertinent visitor use, resource and management issues. These alternatives are presented in a newsletter.

Topic Questions Instructions:

Please number your responses to match the corresponding question.

Topic Questions:

1. Is one of the four preliminary alternatives (A-No Action, B-Active Management, C-Regulatory, D-Minimum Requirements) already close to your idea of the best way to manage climbing and canyoneering activities in Arches National Park? If so, which one, and how might you modify it to make it closer to your ideal?

2. Which parts of any of the preliminary alternatives do you feel strongly should be included in the management of climbing and canyoneering?

3. Which parts of any of the preliminary alternatives do you feel strongly should not be included in the management of climbing and canyoneering?

4. Do you have any other thoughts, ideas or comments regarding climbing and canyoneering activities in the park?

Document Content:

Preliminary Alternatives Newsletter   (5.6 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.