Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida: Summary of the General Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact StatementU.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1991 - Big Cypress National Preserve (Fla.) - 3 pages The purpose of the General Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement for Big Cypress National Preserve is to guide visitor use, natural and cultural resource management, and general development within the original boundary of the preserve for the next 10 to 15 years. Important resources, management issues, and alternative strategies to address the issues are presented, along with the potential environmental consequences of implementing those alternatives. (These topics will be addressed for the 146, 000 acres added to the preserve in 1988 in a later addendum to the general management plan.) |
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access by ORVS acres already invaded acres occupied acres of ORV acres potentially displaced backcountry Bear Island approximately bird dogs Cape Sable Clean Water Act Continue existing programs Corn Dance cultural resources cultural sites identified Cypress and Everglades decrease in ORV Deep Lake unit deer and hog designated sites development surface facilities at Oasis feral hogs Florida panther formal regulation gun season habitat health of panther housing at Ochopee hunter access hunting-related ORV Impact Topic Impacts of Alternative Impacts unknown Impacts improve increase in formal inhold interpretive program Loop Road Loop unit Lostmans Management Plan National Park Service number of hunters numbers and health occupied by NPS oil and gas Old-growth pinelands orientation wayside exhibits panther population Passively manage preserve preserve's proposed action Approximately proposed action Impacts proposed action Recovery Recovery of approximately Red-cockaded Woodpeckers seaside sparrow Stairsteps units status quo alternative surface water flow Turner River unknown Impacts unknown white-tailed deer