(#167958) Draft environmental statement[.] Development concept plan[:] Giant Forest-Lodgepole complex[,] Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park[.] Prepared for the Denver Service Center National Park Service[.] Contract No. CX-2000-3-0044[.] Prepared by The Interdisciplinary Team[:] James A. Roberts Associates, Inc.[,] 7128 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Suite A-1[,] Carmichael, California 95608[,] and Sasaki, Walker Associates, Incorporated[,] 2200 Bridgeway Boulevard[,] Sausalito, California 94965[.] November 9, 1973. UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.

Draft environmental statement[.] Development concept plan[:] Giant Forest-Lodgepole complex[,] Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park[.] Prepared for the Denver Service Center National Park Service[.] Contract No. CX-2000-3-0044[.] Prepared by The Interdisciplinary Team[:] James A. Roberts Associates, Inc.[,] 7128 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Suite A-1[,] Carmichael, California 95608[,] and Sasaki, Walker Associates, Incorporated[,] 2200 Bridgeway Boulevard[,] Sausalito, California 94965[.] November 9, 1973. Carmichael, California and Sausalito, California: James A. Roberts Associates, Inc. and Sasaki, Walker Associates, Incorporated, 1973. 28x21.5 cm, [i] ii-viii 1-122 [i] [1] 2-35 [i-iii] [1] 2-13 [i] [i] leaves, 1 illustration, 2 figures, 28 tables, 8 diagrams and charts, 17 maps and plans (all included in the pagination), olive green wrappers, brown spiral plastic spine. First edition. A plan prepared by an outside consultant, working under contract to the Park Service, "... to guide new development and relocation of existing development, based on general and implied mandates and National Park Service administrative policies." Proposes major changes in the Giant Forest-Lodgepole complex, an area of about 15,000 acres, in keeping with the framework of the 1971 master plan. Recommends the construction of a tram to replace most motor vehicle traffic in the complex and the relocation of all existing facilities in Giant Forest to Lodgepole Village. The route of the proposed tram was essentially a loop through the Giant Forest, part of which would be in a presently roadless area. The authors analyze expected environmental impacts of the tram and briefly consider alternatives. An appendix includes a "visitor profile" of park users, who were found to be largely upper-middle class whites. Another appendix reprints an out-of-date version of a paper, Gilbert H. Schubert's "Silvical Characteristics of Giant Sequoia," Technical Paper no. 20 (1957), which was revised in 1962. The Park Service reprinted the information in this volume in somewhat different format in 1974 and a 46-page greatly abridged format for mass distribution was released in 1974. A very good copy. This copy has been extensively annotated by an informed, critical reader who finds errors of fact and much to question. (#167958).

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