Excerpt from Voyageurs: Voyageurs National Park, General Management Plan, Environmental Impact Statement, Visitor Use and Facilities Plan; Draft, June 2000 As a general management plan for a national park, this document is unique because it also includes a visitor use and facilities plan. In 1983 Congress passed legislation directing the park to complete such a plan, but the directive was never funded. In 1996 - 97 a federal mediation process was conducted to address numerous issues about visitor use and management of the park. As a result of this process, the mediation panel recommended that a visitor use and facilities plan could be accomplished through the nps general management planning process. Therefore, the Visitor Use and Facilities Plan has been developed in conjunction with the Draft General Management Plan Environmental Impact State ment, and it is based on the same information. The plan addresses the same visitor facilities and uses in the park outlined in the proposed action, plus it takes a more comprehensive look at the Voyageurs region related to tourism, surrounding visitor use and facilities, and opportunities for working with others outside the park. Since the Visitor Use and Facilities Plan proposes the same actions as the draft proposed action, the environmental consequences, including cumulative impacts, would be identical to those that are presented in Chapter 4: Environmental Consequences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.