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Excerpt from General Management Plan, Environmental Assessment: Acadia National Park, Maine The dispersed use alternative would accommodate modest increases in visitation by dispersing visitors throughout more of the park and throughout the year. Visitor services, support facilities, and concessions would be developed and expanded. Proposals include a new visitor center, expanded horse and carriage concessions, enhanced visiting equestrian facilities, restoration of the carriage road and hiking trail systems, reestablishment of abandoned picnic areas, establishment of a town-park shuttle bus system, and development of new bikeways and walking trails connecting the park with surrounding communities. Effective implementation of this alternative would depend upon collaboration between the National Park Service, surrounding communities, schools, state and federal agencies, and special interest groups. Estimated development costs would be $30 million. Impacts would include expanded recreational options, improved protection of cultural resources, loss of opportunities for solitude, and additional fragmentation of habitat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.