Draft New Area Report Study Of Alternatives

The study has two major objectives: (1) to evaluate the significance of the cultural and natural values of the West Mesa according to National Park Service criteria and (2) to provide alternatives for the management of the area. The first of these objectives is covered in two sections of this document: "study area characteristics" and "analysis of significance." The second objective is met in the "alternatives for management" section. This document is in draft form. It is published as a draft so that local and state governments, other federal agencies, Indian groups, and members of the public can comment on it before it is sent to Congress. Once the final document has been prepared, Congress will decide if a national monument will be established on the Albuquerque West Mesa.

Excerpt from Study of Alternatives: Draft, July, 1989 The georgetown-silver Plume Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a national historic landmark on November 13, 1966, thus recognizing the historic district as nationally significant. These resources have been categorized in the national historic landmarks program as representing the interpretive themes of Westward Expansion and Architecture. As part of a statewide Colorado reconnaissance survey, the National Park Service completed a survey of Georgetown and Silver Plume in November 1980. The report contained no recommendation, but it did identify three Options for further study, one of which was a study of alternatives with the following objectives: (1) to identify the study area's significant resources and determine the present effectiveness in protecting these resources, (2) to discuss the effect of existing and projected land-use trends on the significant resources, and (3) to develop and analyze alternative strategies for management and protection of the area's significant cultural, natural, scenic, and recreational resources. The 1987 Colorado State fifty-sixth General Assembly passed House Joint Resolution No. 1032 to support further study by the National Park Service. In the 1988 Interior Appropriations bill was a directive by Congress to prepare a study of alternatives for the georgetown-silver Plume Historic District. This Study of Alternatives is limited to the reconnaissance survey study area, which includes the surrounding environment, specific individual sites and structures, and the national historic landmark represented by the communities of Georgetown and Silver Plume. The study will use and elaborate on the information contained in the reconnaissance survey and in addition will include 1) a general description of resources, their condition, and their significance, (2) present ownership of resources, (3) existing and proposed uses and their effects on the resources, (4) feasible alternatives, including a no-action alternative, for the management, preservation, interpretation, and use of resources, and (5) a preliminary analysis of the economic, social, cultural, and environmental impacts of the alternatives. 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.