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Scoping Report PARIA CANYON/VERMILION CLIFFS WILDERNESS MANAGEMENT PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SCOPING REPORT U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Arizona Strip District August 2019 PCVC EA Scoping Report August 2019 CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. iv 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background ........................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Purpose .............................................................................................................................................. 3 1.3 Location ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1.4 Document Organization ..................................................................................................................... 3 2. SCOPING PROCESS ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.1 Advertising of Public Meetings ......................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Public Scoping Meetings ................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Opportunities for Public Comment .................................................................................................... 5 3. SCOPING CONTENT ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 6 3.1 Development of the Coding Structure ............................................................................................... 6 3.2 Comment Analysis ............................................................................................................................. 7 3.3 Identification and Coding of Comments ............................................................................................ 7 3.4 Preparation of Scoping Report ........................................................................................................... 8 4. SUMMARY OF PUBLIC SCOPING COMMENTS .......................................................................... 9 4.1 Submittals Received .......................................................................................................................... 9 4.1.1 Geographic Origin ................................................................................................................... 9 4.1.2 Organizational Affiliation ....................................................................................................... 9 4.2 Comments Identified ....................................................................................................................... 10 4.2.1 Recommendations on Changing the Number of Visitors Allowed ....................................... 10 4.2.2 Topics, Issues, and Concerns ................................................................................................. 11 5. PRELIMINARY CONCERNS ........................................................................................................... 15 5.1 Resource Protection ......................................................................................................................... 15 5.2 Public Health and Safety ................................................................................................................. 15 5.3 Wildlife, Vegetation, and Ecosystem Condition.............................................................................. 15 5.4 Visitor Facilities .............................................................................................................................. 15 5.5 Permit Process and Socioeconomic Issues ...................................................................................... 16 6. RECOMMENDED MITIGATION ACTIONS ................................................................................. 17 6.1 Resource Protection ......................................................................................................................... 17 6.2 Public Health and Safety ................................................................................................................. 17 6.3 Visitor Facilities ............................................................................................................................... 17 7. FUTURE STEPS IN THE EA PROCESS ......................................................................................... 18 APPENDIX A Press Release ..................................................................................................................... 1 APPENDIX B Scoping Letter ................................................................................................................... 1 APPENDIX C Scoping Meeting Maps ..................................................................................................... 1 ii PCVC EA Scoping Report August 2019 APPENDIX D Scoping Meeting Display Boards..................................................................................... 1 APPENDIX E Comment Card.................................................................................................................. 1 Figures Figure 1.1 Map of the Western Portion of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, including the Coyote Buttes North Permit Area, and the Wave.............................................................................. 2 Figure 4.1 Input for Visitor Numbers Shown as Percentage of Non-Form Letter Comment Documents ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Figure 4.2 Most Commonly Identified Issues (no other categories exceeded 10% of comment documents) ................................................................................................................................................. 13 Tables Table 2.1 Meeting Notification Methods and Dates ................................................................................ 4 Table 2.2 Public Scoping Meeting Dates, Times (local times), and Locations ....................................... 4 Table 3.1 Issue Identification Categories .................................................................................................. 6 Table 3.2 Recommendation Category Codes and Descriptors ................................................................ 7 Table 4.1 General Distribution of Comments Identified in the Submittals Received during Public Scoping ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Table 4.2 Distribution of Non-Form Letter Comment Documents ....................................................... 9 Table 4.3 Comments Regarding Permitted Number of Visitors ........................................................... 10 Table 4.4 Topics, Issues, and Concerns ................................................................................................... 12 Table 4.5 List of Miscellaneous Topics .................................................................................................... 14 iii PCVC EA Scoping Report August 2019 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS BLM Bureau of Land Management CBN Coyote Buttes North CBS Coyote Buttes South EA environmental assessment GSENM Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, NEPA National Environmental Policy Act PCVC Paria Canyon – Vermilion Cliffs RMP Resource Management Plan WMP wilderness management plan iv PCVC EA Scoping Report August 2019 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in public demand to visit the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs (PCVC) Wilderness (designated by Congress in 1984), and in particular Coyote Buttes North (CBN), where the feature known as “The Wave” is located (see Figure 1.1). The Wave is a relatively small area of banded sandstone shaped by erosion into visually striking U-shaped formations. Access to the Wave requires a 6.4 mile round-trip hike on sandstone and sand dunes, all of which is within designated wilderness. Several hiking websites and guidebooks describe the relative difficulty of the route as ‘moderate’. While this is accurate from a topographic perspective, other aspects of the hike render it more difficult than the ‘moderate’ label implies. No trail is discernible for most of the hike, and, in compliance with the Wilderness Act of 1964, route signage is minimal within the wilderness portion of the route. There is no water, and little shade on the route. Weather conditions can be extreme, with hot temperatures in spring, summer, and early fall, and cold temperatures in winter. Lost hikers and medical emergencies, particularly heat-related ailments, occur often, including several fatalities in recent years. The increase in demand has been prompted in large part by national and international media coverage as well as social media. The Wave has been featured on ABC Nightline’s “Heat Tourists”, National Geographic, Backpacker magazine, Canada’s “Love Nature “series, as well as CNN, Tokyo Broadcasting
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