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Development Concept Plan & Environmental Assessment for New Lands of Shiloh NMP
Shiloh National Military Park » Development Concept Plan & Environmental Assessment for New Lands of Shiloh NMP
Shiloh National Military Park has prepared a Development Concept Plan (DCP) to provide management guidance for new lands added to the National Military Park since 2000. The National Park Service thanks the public for your past comments on the document and its framework for management and infrastructure improvements of new lands and pleased to share the final DCP, along with an associated Environmental Assessment (EA), and the Finding of no Significant Impact (FONSI) authorizing its implementation.
Shiloh National Military Park was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the western theater of the Civil War. Initially, the park contained about 3,900 acres of the Shiloh battlefield and the Shiloh National Cemetery in southwestern Tennessee. The Corinth Battlefield Preservation Act of 2000 (PL 106-271, 16 USC. 430f-6) significantly expanded the park's boundary by creating the Corinth Battlefield Unit of the park. The boundary was again expanded through Public Law 110-161 121 Stat. 2122 on December 26, 2007, and again through the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (Dingell Act) of 2019, bringing the total authorized acreage of Shiloh National Military Park to approximately 9,200 acres.
To date, just over 6,976 acres of the park's authorized boundary is under NPS management with about 5,268 at the Shiloh Battlefield Unit (including the newly added Fallen Timbers site), approximately 861 acres at the Corinth Battlefield Unit, and approximately 847 acres at the Davis Bridge Battlefield Unit.
The New Lands DCP/EA/FONSI is intended to guide restoration of the park's new lands and direct interpretive planning and development for visitor access at them. The DCP/EA/FONSI serves as a General Management Plan (GMP) update for the new lands, which were not part of Shiloh National Military Park when the existing GMP was finalized. General management planning is required for every unit of the national park system, and the DCP/EA /FONSI will ensure that the national military park has a defined direction for resource protection and visitor use.
Shiloh National Military Park was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the western theater of the Civil War. Initially, the park contained about 3,900 acres of the Shiloh battlefield and the Shiloh National Cemetery in southwestern Tennessee. The Corinth Battlefield Preservation Act of 2000 (PL 106-271, 16 USC. 430f-6) significantly expanded the park's boundary by creating the Corinth Battlefield Unit of the park. The boundary was again expanded through Public Law 110-161 121 Stat. 2122 on December 26, 2007, and again through the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (Dingell Act) of 2019, bringing the total authorized acreage of Shiloh National Military Park to approximately 9,200 acres.
To date, just over 6,976 acres of the park's authorized boundary is under NPS management with about 5,268 at the Shiloh Battlefield Unit (including the newly added Fallen Timbers site), approximately 861 acres at the Corinth Battlefield Unit, and approximately 847 acres at the Davis Bridge Battlefield Unit.
The New Lands DCP/EA/FONSI is intended to guide restoration of the park's new lands and direct interpretive planning and development for visitor access at them. The DCP/EA/FONSI serves as a General Management Plan (GMP) update for the new lands, which were not part of Shiloh National Military Park when the existing GMP was finalized. General management planning is required for every unit of the national park system, and the DCP/EA /FONSI will ensure that the national military park has a defined direction for resource protection and visitor use.