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2010 Carbon River Access Management FONSI


Chris Lehnertz, Pacific West Region Director, National Park Service, has issued a decision and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Carbon River Area Access Management Environmental Assessment (EA). Lehnertz's decision sets the future direction for management of public access to this spectacular area of Mount Rainier National Park.

The historic Carbon River Road was heavily damaged during a November 2006 storm event and has been closed to vehicle use since then. Rocks and gravel have raised the bed of the Carbon River up as much as 31 feet since the Carbon River Road was constructed next to the river in the 1920s. Several sections of the historic road are now lower than the adjacent river and increasingly vulnerable to flood damage.

Implementation of the preferred alternative will occur over the next several years as funding is available. Funding priorities include protection of the entrance and intact sections of the historic road from additional flood damage, improvement of the trail sections, and transition of some visitor services and operations out of the flood plain to nearby facilities on new lands added to the park by Congress in 2004.

For a printed copy of the FONSI, please call Mount Rainier National Park at (360) 569-2211, extension 2301.
 
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Carbon River Access Management EA FONSICarbon River Access Management EA FONSI   (369.9 KB, PDF file)
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