Final General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement

This document examines three alternatives for managing Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial for the next 15 to 20 years. It also analyzes the impacts of implementing each of the alternatives. The "no-action" alternative, alternative A, describes the existing national memorial management and trends and serves as a basis for comparison in evaluating the other alternatives. The concept for national memorial management under alternative B, All Things Commemorative, would focus on the national memorial's formal and informal commemorative settings. The memorial building would be dedicated to commemoration of the Lincoln family story. The alternative would restore some elements of the memorial building and landscape to their original design and create a partnership with the adjacent Lincoln State Park in providing a visitor center and shared administrative offices. Under the "preferred" alternative C, Exploring Lincoln's Indiana, national memorial management would emphasize interpretive opportunities with an emphasis on the history of the Lincoln family in southern Indiana and on the natural and sociopolitical environment of the times. The memorial building would be used for interpretation and orientation purposes. Visitors would have an array of interpretive opportunities available to them and the overall character of the experience would be interactive and educational.

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