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Military Park seeking input
National Park Service taking comments for management plan
Date published: 7/27/2009 BY CLINT SCHEMMER Your neighborhood national park wants to hear from you. Its rangers, historians and top brass are eager to know what people want changed, improved or just left the same at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. So says Superintendent Russ Smith. He invites any and all to turn out for open houses being held this week (and this fall) to solicit ideas on how the National Park Service can best manage the 7,342 acres under its care here. "If people want to make changes to our management plan for the next 20 years, now's the time," Smith said in an interview. "This has to come from the community." The second-largest Civil War park in the nation (after Chickamauga/Chattanooga in Tennessee), the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania park includes four battlefields spread across what historians call the bloodiest ground in America. The Union and Confederate armies suffered more than 100,000 casualties in the fighting at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House between 1862 and 1864. Today, the park is a huge magnet for tourism, bringing almost $50 million a year to the Fredericksburg area. Its general management plan governs every aspect of running this sprawling preserve--from visitor facilities to trenches, trails and roads, to what themes its interpreters, museum exhibits, multimedia and wayside markers try to communicate. This revision is the public's best chance to have a big impact on what the park does and what it will look like for decades to come, Smith said. The opportunity for such changes comes but once a generation. The park's management plan, the size of a small book, was last updated in 1986. It will take several years to complete the revision, as the general public, visitors, community stakeholders and government agencies are all asked to contribute. Every national park is required to have such a plan, which guides management decisions affecting its resources and visitors' experiences. People are invited to discuss their ideas and concerns about the park with its staff and planning team during informal workshops scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Sept. 9 in Spotsylvania County, Fredericksburg and Orange County, respectively.
Date published: 7/27/2009
I know
(posted by
wildbill56
, July 27, 2009 7:16 am)
Let's build a Walmart at each battlefield.
ATV riding area
(posted by
Grumpy1
, July 27, 2009 7:14 am)
I think we need an ATV riding area, and maybe a paint ball range...
pay people what the people does the job local get p aid
(posted by
1958
, July 27, 2009 7:04 am)
Stop throwing the exter money you have at the end of your year away so you can get even more to throw away next year
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