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Big Bend National ParkCooper's Store at Persimmon Gap, mid-1940s
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Big Bend National Park
Park Planning
Full Moon at Dawn over Chisos Mountains
NPS/Big Bend National Park
Full Moon at dawn over the Chisos Mountains.
 
National Park Service prepares a variety of planning and environmental documents to help guide it in managing park resources. These documents can range from site-specific impact analyses on facility locations, specific use-type such as  backcountry or river use, to broader park-wide plans for future use and management of the park, such as the General Management Plan.
 
Other Plans
Backcountry Management Plan—approved December 1995 [5.12mb PDF File]
Comprehensive Interpretive Plan—approved October 2004 [252kb PDF File]
Fire Management Plan—approved October 2005 [3.02mb PDF File]
Recreational River Use Management Plan—approved October March 1997 [3.68mb PDF File]
A desert scene  

Did You Know?
Big Bend National Park contains the most representative example of the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem in the United States. The park’s river, desert, and mountain environments support an extraordinary richness of biological diversity, including endemic plants and animals.
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