Excerpt from General Management Plan, Development Concept Plan, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico This document contains a general management plan/development concept plan (gmp/dcp) for the recently enlarged Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The gmp/dcp revises and updates a gmp approved in 1979, and many of the concepts in the earlier plan have been carried forward. The current gmp provides a general strategy for managing lands within the expanded boundary. It includes an analysis of critical resource values and an overall management zoning concept. Land protection proposals are summarized in the gmp and described on a tract-by-tract basis in the Land Protection Plan that is being circulated concurrently. Other gmp and dcp proposals include establishment of markers along the newly authorized boundary by agreement with current landowners; an improved interpretive program to provide opportunities for greater personal contact between visitors and interpretive staff; a regulated access system in the primary ruins area during peak periods; relocation of the campgrounds to provide a more desirable camping setting above the 100-year floodplain; continued monitoring of activities near the park to reduce their impacts on park resources; an increase in the ruins maintenance program and limited backfilling of excavated rooms to bring stabilization up to an acceptable standard; and renovation or development of utility, waste disposal, and communication systems. The proposals. Are expected to have few adverse impacts on cultural and natural resources. Impacts on resources within the newly expanded boundary will be minimized primarily throughland exchanges, existing regulations, and cooperative agreements. No impacts on endangered species, floodplains, or wetlands are anticipated. Impacts on the local economy may result because mineral activity will be largely excluded, but the extent of these impacts is unknown because the recently authorized addition lands have not been thoroughly investigated for mineral resources. The gmp/dcp will guide management and use of the park for the next 10 to 15 years. 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.