mum ’ 'ngwvw M w- fl ““ m... samrxw v~ ”4*: A fluk?’ ‘1; , az‘x‘.» |_ t g} f 11.. :~; «- pf, , .“s"3.. V SEPTEMBER 1988 DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN — , QUINAULT AREA 7CF¥§97 65;.“ L, {:3 W??? D001; é CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Planning Process Plan Summary DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN MAPS VaIleywide Kestner Area DESCRIPTION OF CONCEPTS CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATES PR EPARERS 3-4 “WA “ PLANNING PROCESS In 1976, the Master Plan for Olympic National Park was completed to provide general, park-wide guidance for management. An NPS planning effort specific to the Quinault valley has never been completed. The 1976 Master Plan contained few proposals specific to the Ouinault; however, it did identify the need for cooperative, interagency recreation and resource planning on the Olympic Peninsula, including the Quinault. The US. Forest Service (USFS) prepared a management plan for public lands on the south shore of Quinault Lake in 1980, and is currently reexamining and updating its findings. It is therefore particularly timely for the NPS to examine its management direction for national park lands in the valley. In 1987, a Development Concept Plan (DCP) was started to address management direction for this portion of Olympic National Park. A DCP is an intermediate planning step between the Master Plan, and the next step of site-specific design drawings. This DCP focuses on a particular developed area within the park in need of conceptual, area-wide management direction. It concentrates on facility needs and development, rather than operational or backcountry resource needs. in April 1988, an Environmental Assessment/Draft DCP was completed, which presented a range of alternative management directions for the area, and the environmental impacts expected from each of these alternatives. Together with the NPS’s recommended plan, presented as the “preferred alternative,” other possible solutions were also presented to provide the public with a wide range of alternatives. Comments received at six public meetings and in writing were considered, revisions were made as determined by the park superintendent and regional director, and this final DCP was adopted to guide management for the next 10 to 15 years. This DCP for Ouinault is one of four concurrently completed for different areas on the west side of the park — the Quinault valley, the Kalaloch coastal strip, the Soleduck valley, and the Ozette area. How each area interacts with the others in terms of the park visitor experience, both independently and in combination, was considered in the preparation of the four DCPs. PLAN SUMMARY The DCP includes the following development concepts: 1) provide a visitor experience which emphasizes interaction with a natural environment, with a minimum of recreational developments; 2) coordinate with the USFS for them to provide the bulk of developed recreation facilities in the valley, including a new RV campground and possible expansion of the Ouinault Lodge; emphasize dispersed and unstructured recreation on national park lands; 3) develop a multiagency information center at the junction of Highway 101 and the South Shore Road; 4) generally maintain roads in their current conditions; provide dust control on unpaved roads; 5) develop new picnic sites, trails, and lakeshore access; maintain NPS campground developments at existing levels; 6) maintain the interpretive center/ranger station at its existing location; consider developing a rain forest ecosystem research center at the Kestner site; 7) restore and interpret the historic Kestner homestead; 8) relocate the existing NPS employee housing and maintenance area to an area east of the Kestner site; permanent employees to use NPS purchased homes when possible; and 9) continue use of privately owned rustic resorts and/or youth hostel. 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