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News Release - Buffalo
Date: 99-03-10 20:34:34 EST
From: MaDark
NEWS RELEASE
u.s. department of the interior national park service
For Immediate Release: March 8, 1999
Contact:
Rick Frost (303) 987-6732
Marsha Karle (307) 344-2015
LARGE NUMBER OF PUBLIC COMMENTS ON DRAFT BISON MANAGEMENT PLAN REVEAL -- THE
ISSUES ARE OF NATIONAL CONCERN
A draft plan on the management of bison in and around Yellowstone
National Park received more than 67,000 public comments from across the
country and around the world, the National Park Service announced today. The
announcement was made as the NPS released a summary analysis of the comments
which details the areas of support and concern generated by the draft plan.
During the period allowing public comment on the draft EIS, the NPS
received 67,520 letters containing 212,249 individual comments. The dominant
themes in the letters were bison management and the alternatives for bison
management presented in the draft EIS.
The comments were received in response to a draft Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on the Interagency Bison Management Plan for the State of
Montana and Yellowstone National Park. The EIS was jointly developed by the
State of Montana, Department of Interior's National Park Service, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS).
The comment period on the draft EIS lasted from June 12, 1998 through
November 2, 1998. Comments were received from federal and state agencies,
tribes, non-governmental organizations, and interested individuals from every
state in the United States and 66 countries throughout the world.
The cooperating state and federal agencies will now use the public
comments to revise the draft EIS and correct errors, incorporate relevant new
information, and evaluate new proposed alternatives.
The report on the summary of public comments will be available beginning
March 9, 1999. To request a copy of the public comment report, write Bison
Management Plan EIS Team, National Park Service, Sarah Bransom, DSC-RP, P.O.
Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225-0287; phone (303) 969-2251; or visit the web
site at http://www.nps.gov/planning/current.htm
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