Resource management plan, Kenai Fjords National Park

US National Park Service

This resource management plan (RMP) describes Kenai Fjords National Park’s resource management visions/objectives and the actions necessary to achieve that vision. The RMP documents knowledge and status of the Park’s natural and cultural resources; describes and evaluates current resource management activities; prescribes an action program; and identifies funding and personnel needs. Furthermore, a report from the General Accounting Office (GAO 1994) calls for the RMP to include the following: (1) the number, type, and source of external threats and priorities for addressing those threats; (2) project statements for each external threat, describing the mitigation actions that can be taken; and (3) the status of threat mitigation actions. In addition, internal (on park land and water) threats also exist. This plan strives to address all of these issues recognizing the current well protected conditions but anticipating that internal and external pressures will only increase in the future.