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Grand Teton National Park, Environmental Assessment, Reconstruction Of Teton Park Road And Jenny Lake Road, United States Department Of The Interior, National Park Service Jan 1988

Grand Teton National Park, Environmental Assessment, Reconstruction Of Teton Park Road And Jenny Lake Road, United States Department Of The Interior, National Park Service

Environmental Assessments (WY)

Reconstruction is proposed for 12 miles of the Teton Park Road between Moose Junction and North Jenny Lake Junction, as well as 6.5 miles of the Jenny Lake one-way loop road and the 0.5 mile long String Lake road. The project is being planned and designed in two segments. Segment A extends between Moose Junction and a point near the Climbers Ranch road intersection (4 miles north of Moose Junction), and segment B continues from that point to North Jenny Lake junction and includes modification of the String/Jenny Lake road and parking complex. Segment A would be constructed under a …


Historical Vegetation, Fuel Loads, And Integrated Resource Information System For Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah State University, Department Of Forest Resources And Ecology Center Jan 1988

Historical Vegetation, Fuel Loads, And Integrated Resource Information System For Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah State University, Department Of Forest Resources And Ecology Center

Elusive Documents

This report describes a comprehensive approach to understanding the role and effects of fire in Bryce Canyon National Park. The study includes a reconstruction of the historic vegetation of Bryce Canyon National Park from historic photographs, inference from computer simulation models, and research in areas of similar vegetation. The successional pathways from the historic vegetation to the present are discussed and the landscape scale consequences of fire suppression and successional devolopment are addressed.