Hi all, thought you might be interested in reading this. Cheers, tom RRFW Riverwire - RIVER RUNNERS INVITED TO PADDLE THE PLAN Release Date: October 24, 2004 On October 1, 2004, Grand Canyon National Park released the long awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Colorado River Management Plan (CRMP). The Draft was given a flat "F" by River Runners for Wilderness (RRFW) the day the plan was released. Attempting to keep a sense of humor about 8 years of work and millions of dollars spent for so little, River Runners for Wilderness announces the Paddle The Plan, or PTP, program. Here's how it works. Just for the asking, you get a free CRMP T-shirt and you get to reserve a wooden paddle for your comment to the park. The dark blue T-shirt, with the RRFW logo and the words "Human Powered Wilderness, Not A Motorized Theme Park" is for you to proudly wear at a scoping meeting near you (for time and location, see below), or when visiting with your elected officials about the CRMP mess. River Runners for Wilderness will hand-deliver the 40 inch wooden paddles, with your name, address and CRMP comments on them, directly to the Park. Yes, that's right. Both the shirt and paddle are free for the asking. It's fun, it's easy, and you can send a message loud and clear to the good folks at Grand Canyon National Park that the Colorado River and the river runners who travel on its waters demand a real change in management of this precious wilderness paradise. To participate, choose just ONE of your comments about the released CRMP, visit www.rrfw.org/ptp.php by November 17, 2004 and fill out the PTP form along with your full name and address, and T-shirt size. We have kid's sizes, too, because wilderness is for their future as well as ours. All T-shirt orders will be filled first come first serve, while supplies last. RRFW encourages you to participate in the CRMP. Your comments count. Once you've captured all your comments to the park in your own unique words, choose one for your paddle-see the samples below for ideas Your comments should have a specific "ask" to the park that relates to one of the alternatives, the proposed permitting system, the waiting list transition or something the park omitted entirely from the plan, like managing for wilderness character. Avoid broad generalizations and vague complaints. Here are some concrete examples of the type of comments the park is looking for: "A common pool system (Option B) should be phased in over 5 years: 20% of total allocation converted each year until all the use has been converted to a non-allocated permitting system, within alternative C." "Do not decrease trip lengths for noncommercial trips. Shorter trips and drought-caused lower flows will be a hardship for visitors, will expand noncommercial use of motors and will degrade wilderness character. A modified alternative C would accommodate the present trip lengths, would not expand non-commercial motorized use, would accommodate drought caused low-water conditions, and would preserve wilderness character." "The DEIS has no justification of the park's position of continued refusal to phase out motors, even though this phase out was proposed by the park itself in 1979. Begin phase out immediately in alternative C." "There is no justification for bunching launches in the summer season, as is proposed in the preferred alternative. I support spreading launches out in all seasons and distributing launches using a non-allocated system to end access discrimination against lower income and non-commercial visitors." "A weighted noncommercial lottery for launches by groups, as suggested, is burdensome and will be unworkable for the park and the applicants. A non-allocated system is inherently fair and must be adopted instead, as suggested in option B." CRMP Public meetings will be held at the following cities from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Monday, November 8, 2004 Denver, Colorado Arapahoe Community College Cafeteria 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton www.arapahoe.edu/aboutacc/maps/index.html Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Salt Lake Community College-Miller Campus Karen Gail Miller Conference Center 9750 South 300 West, Sandy www.slcc.edu/miller/MAP/ Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel Ballroom 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington HYPERLINK "http://marriott.com/property/propertyPage/WASGW"http://marriott.com/propert y/propertyPage/WASGW Thursday, November 18, 2004 Henderson Convention Center Ballroom and Sierra A & C 200 Water Street, Henderson Nevada www.visithenderson.com/index01.html Monday, November 22, 2004 Coconino Community College Administration Building - Commons Area 2800 S. Lone Tree Rd. Flagstaff, AZ www.coconino.edu/campuses/lonetree.html Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Glendale Community College Student Lounge 6000 W. Olive Avenue, Glendale Phoenix, Arizona www.gc.maricopa.edu/map/ Thursday, December 2, 2004 The Presidio of San Francisco Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, California www.presidio.gov/Visiting/DirectionsShuttle/OfficersClub.htm You can make a difference! Join us in paddling the plan. Your tax-deductible donations to support this campaign are gratefully accepted. Go to www.rrfw.org/store.php to donate by check or credit card. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RIVERWIRE is a free service to the community of river lovers from River Runners for Wilderness. Membership is FREE! Send your e-mail address to riverwire_at_rrfw.org and we'll add you to the RRFW RIVERWIRE e-mail list. To join, visit our website at www.rrfw.org and click on the "membership" link. 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