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Show Canyonlands Workshop Thursday Drew an Enthusiastic Crowd "rj .... ,r7V I Carol Holyoak has a good reason to be smiling, standing there holding her wad which amounts to $100 in Bonus Bucks she can spend with merchants who are participating in the big Mystery Personality Contest. Carol won this week! "We were extremely pleased with the turnout and participation we received at the public workshop for the V-.-Iopmeot rf jupagwiit objct?ves for. Canyonlands National Park, heid in , Moab last Thursday evening," Superintendent Superin-tendent Pete Parry of the National Park Service stated Monday. Mr. Parry stated that a crowd of nearly fifty people attended the meeting, which resulted. in group discussions of a number of management alternatives for the park, and discussions lasted nearly until midnight, participation was so good, he said. 1 Mr. Parry said that although opinions of those attending varied greatly on some points, there were a number of areas where concensus opinions were obtained. "Those areas are of real importance to us in our development of management objectives," the NPS official stated. The Moab meeting was one of a number held last week and being held this week on Canyonlands. Mr. Parry and his staff traveled to Denver Tuesday, for one of the last meetings on the subject. Following the conclusion of the series of workshops, the staff will compile results from all the meetings, and begin the task of working up a management objective plan. Participants in the workshops discussed all four major planning areas of the park: The Needles District, The Maze, The Island in the Sky, and the ' River portions of the park. They talked about vehicular access, trail access, administrative and interpretive facilities, camping facilities, etc. In discussions about the Colorado and Green Rivers, they talked sAtom t;iaes vf cjaft to be allowed on the river, environmental impact of people on the river bottoms, commercial vs. private trips through the canyons, etc. Mr. Parry stated that Moab resulted in the largest group of people to date at the workshops. "We feel very good about the Moab meeting, in light of the fact that there were other meetings scheduled that same evening, along with a televised presidential campaign debate," he said. |