Comprehensive Plan for the Protection, Management, Development and Use of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (1987 abridged version)
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Resource ID
1107
Access
Open
Contributed by
Appalachian Trail Museum Library
Date
June 1987
Tags - Places
Entire Trail
Document Types
Federal, Report
Document Extract
This edition of the Comprehensive Plan omits the Appendices, Chapters VIII and IX and the List of Supplemental Documents, which are mostly out of date. The main text of the Plan has stood the test of time. The descriptions of Management Philosophy and the Cooperative Management System, in particular, remain relevant and continue to provide guidance to the Appalachian Trail community. The map that came with the 1981 edition has also been omitted. ...
Although the Comprehensive Plan is still current, it does not reflect important developments in the administration of the Trail since 1981. Notable among these is substantial progress in completing protection of a right-of-way for the Trail (over 90% now protected) and the delegation to the Appalachian Trail Conference in January 1984 of responsibility for managing over 70,000 acres of land acquired by the National Park Service to protect the Trail.