The National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management are discussing whether to significantly expand the boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park. Reporter David Haldane has the details…
Visitors to Joshua Tree National Park may soon have an extra 32,000-plus acres to explore. That’s the size of the parcel federal officials are thinking of adding to the park. The land—on the park’s eastern border and west of the Colorado River Aqueduct—is the subject of something called the Eagle Mountain Boundary Study recently released by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, which currently oversees the area.
Among other things, it outlines how management of the land would be transferred between the two agencies and the environmental impacts of doing so.
It’s not too late to comment on the issue by visiting the park service’s web site at parkplanning.nps.gov/eaglemountain. Or, you can attend a public meeting including one scheduled for 6 p.m. May 4 at the Joshua Tree Community Center on Sunburst.
The comment period ends May 27.
In addition to the scheduled public meetings, federal officials will hold an online teleconference to discuss the proposed park expansion from 1-2:30 p.m. on April 29. Details have yet to be released.
www.parkplanning.nps.gov/eaglemountain
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK EXPANSION STUDIED, PUBLIC COMMENTS SOUGHT
