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May 2007   Zion National Park, Backcountry Management Plan (draft)

The Park has released it's Backcountry Management Plan. Below are links to various parts and versions of the Plan. I have reduced many of the parts to a more download-friendly version.

The original BC Plan (from the NPS), Word (.doc) format, 2.6 MB

Somewhat shortened version, pdf format, 520 KB
Just the Good Parts version, pdf format, 452 KB

Maps - The maps were posted separately, and don't really show enough detail to be useful, but here they are, in a reduced size format for easier downloading. Each of these are between 400 and 800 KB in size:

Map A: General Location
Map B: Study Area
Map C: wilderness
Map D: zones
Map E: trails
Map F: campsites
Map G1: vegetation (north)
Map G2: vegetation (south)

 

May 2007   Zion National Park, VERP Study Results

Concurrent with the release of the draft Plan, the Park released to us the report on the VERP study. This version of the report includes the introduction, and the 2002 and 2003 results from Canyons Day Use (Permitted) parts of the Study.

Verp Results (backcountry day use canyons 2002 and 2003), pdf format, 4.4 MB


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