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Tuolumne River Plan:
http://www.nps.gov/yose/parkmgmt/trpfacts.htm

Merced River Plan: which is goingtocontol YosemiteValley visitation into the future:
http://www.nps.gov/yose/parkmgmt/mrp.htm

If there's things you'd like changed now is the time to speak up. Up to April 18 for the Merced Plan,  March 18 for the Tolumne plan.
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They're both easily downloadable now, the Merced Plan is just 3 volumes.

Reads pretty easy on my iPad.
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Good stuff!

Thanks.  Don't know if I can attend, but worth a read anyway.  A 20 page 'summary' seems a bit daunting however.

I understand the plan is to accommodate more visitors in the Valley and Meadow and clean up places that need it badly.  I suspect that if they have the increase expected with more controls and infrastructure, the 'wilderness experience' will not be any more degraded than it is now for most of the visitors.  

Sequoia/Kings are generally not  fully involved yet with only one road that skirts or penetrates on the west.  It still takes feets 'n hoofs to see 99% of it.  Yosemite has always been considered the sacrifice to allow some people to get a feel for the Sierra.  And it is beautiful enough that more should.

Once you are 6 or 8 miles in, it goes back in time before cars and Burger King.

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One thing that so far has caught me by surprise is their addressing commercial activity in the park and going after a lot of it critically. Ending a lot of the commercial packstock use ( all day trips may be gone), restricting commercial guided tips in the wilderness including a restriction to a quarter mile corridor on each side of maintained trials (Tuolumne plan) and eliminating bike rentals in the Valley (which while the Valley has limited utility for bike riing given the narrow roads and walkways that still strikes me as opposite the overall approach of trying to releive road ongestion: which getting people onto bikes should help) amongst others. Reducing the capacity of Glen Aulin and Merced Lake High Sierra camps to reduce support (packstock trips) and resource (water) needs.

Oh and they've introduced the concept of dayhike trail permits for the Tuolumne plan area were traffic levels to exceed certain criteria.

With 94% of Yosemite designated federal wilderness the "sacrifice" has largely got to do with so many identifying the Valley as all of the park. Yet even in the Valley the eastern and western portions are completely different. A back of the envelope calculation i once did had the developed footprint coming out to be 0.3% of the park area whose total area is just about the size of Rhode Island....
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The Merced River Plan is now available for download as one single PDF file.

http://www.nps.gov/yose/parkmgmt/upload/mrp-deis-ada-web.pdf

Only 100 mb so it's not too awful.
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