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UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. Natural resources management plan and environmental assessment[:] Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks California[.] Prepared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks[,] National Park Service[,] Department of the Interior[.] November 1976. N.p. [Three Rivers, California?]: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1976. 26.7x20.3 cm, pp. [i-x] 1-36 38-77 [note: erratically paginated], 5 illustrations, 5 maps (1 folded and inserted). red wrappers printed in black, side stapled. First edition. "The proposed Natural Resources Management Plan for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks combines research and management to perpetuate the Parks' ecosystems. The plan deals with broad resource topics such as vegetation, wildlife, fire ecology, water resources, and impact of human use." Specific actions proposed include control of exotic insects and diseases, removal of hazard trees, restoring fire to its natural role, reducing bear damage, controls on backcountry use, and fisheries management. The plan also assesses possible environmental impacts resulting from implementation. For a 69-page addendum to the plan, see UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, Management program: an addendum to the natural resources management plan for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Prepared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. November 1976 (N.p. [Three Rivers, California?]: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1976), the "action document designed to implement the plan." It describes all natural resource projects currently active or scheduled for future implementation and tabulates them over a five-year period in relation to park priorities, funding, and manpower requirements. A fine copy. (#167955).