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Big Bend National Park
Park Planning
Full Moon at Dawn over Chisos Mountains
NPS/Big Bend National Park
Full Moon at dawn over the Chisos Mountains.
 
National Park Service prepares a variety of planning and environmental documents to help guide it in managing park resources. These documents can range from site-specific impact analyses on facility locations, specific use-type such as  backcountry or river use, to broader park-wide plans for future use and management of the park, such as the General Management Plan.
 
Other Plans
Backcountry Management Plan—approved December 1995 [5.12mb PDF File]
Comprehensive Interpretive Plan—approved October 2004 [252kb PDF File]
Fire Management Plan—approved October 2005 [3.02mb PDF File]
Recreational River Use Management Plan—approved October March 1997 [3.68mb PDF File]
Dagger Flat at dusk  

Did You Know?
The Dagger Flat Auto Trail is an eight-mile improved dirt road, open to cars. The road ends in a hidden valley where the giant dagger yuccas grow 15-20 feet high. In March and April of some years, clusters of white flowers weighing up to 70 pounds cap these giants.
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Last Updated: September 02, 2007 at 17:14 EST