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Objective 5: Provide Management and Planning Recommendations

We offer the following main recommendations to continue addressing capacity issues at RRC:

• Develop and implement a visitor use personnel around the Loop.
management and monitoring plan. • Enhance the support and capabilities of
• Consider improvements to accommodate the volunteer program.
more visitors and enhance communica-
tion (e.g., expand and reconfigure the
entrance station, designate a ride-share Additionally, we outlined an action plan to
area, and investigate technological assist the BLM with prioritizing and
options for real-time capacity monitoring addressing these recommendations as they
and communication options). consider the most appropriate and feasible
• Increase the presence of official paths forward.

Our findings generally confirm what tions, and making management and moni-
officials and many visitors and other stake- toring plans to achieve those conditions.
holders have seen happening at RRC as
visitation increases. We also developed a set of recommenda-
tions and provided the BLM and partners
These results can be used as a starting with resources to continue monitoring
point for understanding current condi- conditions at RRC and adapting manage-
tions, thinking about desired future condi- ment activities accordingly.

THANK YOU! greatly appreciated. Thank you for every-
Volunteers dedicated to the preservation of Red Rock Canyon
thing you do and for sharing your enthusi-
This project would not have been pos- asm and experiences with us.
sible without the dedication and help of
many Friends of Red Rock Canyon and We also thank other visitors and stake-
other BLM volunteers. We sincerely appre- holders who provided their input. The sup-
ciate your input and assistance throughout port from BLM planners and officials
this project. It will be important for the (locally and at the state and national lev-
BLM to continue harnessing your energy els), the Southern Nevada Conservancy,
and passion for this special place and we and the Friends of Red Rock Canyon
know that your efforts and insights are throughout this project was vital and much
appreciated.

Additionally, we were fortunate to have
tremendous technical support from our
AmeriCorps recreation technician, Will
Rempel. He carried out many of the data
collection efforts for this project and was
committed to providing reliable data that
would help the BLM. Again, thank you to
everyone for your support and we look
forward to following the BLM’s next steps
and engaging in that process to the greatest
extent possible.
ckooistra@TheGreatBasinInstitute.Org

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