River Runners for Wilderness - Protecting the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and Its Tributaries

Paddle The Plan

Headline: Paddle the Plan Airs on NPR Radio (Thursday, Dec. 2nd). Hear the streaming audio version.

Thanks for visiting the Paddle the Plan page. This campaign has ended. Our participants made it a great success! You still have time to make your comments at our Letters page. Deadline is January 7th, 2004. Don't forget to check out our iFilm, and pass it on. Let's get a critical mass of Americans asking that our Grand Canyon be protected as wilderness!

Tell us your comments. We will put'em on a paddle and hand them to the park personally.

The Grand Canyon has plenty of motors but not enough paddles. Let us remind them by sending a paddle. Here is how it works. Just for the asking you get a free CRMP T-shirt (limited sizes remaining due to the terrific response) and you get to reserve a wooden paddle for your comment to the park.

The dark blue T-shirt, with the RRFW logo and the words "Human Powered Wilderness, Not a Motorized Theme Park" is for you to proudly wear at a scoping meeting near you or when visiting with your elected officials about the CRMP. All T-shirt orders will be filled first come first serve, while supplies last.

River Runners For Wilderness will hand-deliver the 40 inch wooden paddles, with your name, address and CRMP comments on them, directly to the Park.

Personal Information

Name, address and e-mail and/or phone number is required

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Comment for Paddle

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PS: Please log my paddle comment as part of your formal public comments received for the DEIS-CRMP. Please send me confirmation that you have received my paddle comments to the above address. Thank you.

Examples:

I want a human powered wilderness, not a motorized theme park.

The park must begin to phase out motors, using the timetable the park proposed in the 1979 Colorado River Management Plan but never adopted.

Do not decrease trip lengths for noncommercial trips. Shorter trips and drought-caused lower flows will be a hardship for visitors, will expand noncommercial use of motors and degrade wilderness character.

Expand the spectrum of outfitted services (hire-a-guide, cook, or consultant) available to river runners.

Count crew members as users within the total commercial allocation use.

There is no justification for bunching launches in the summer season. Spread launches out in all seasons and distribute with a non-allocated system to end discrimination against lower income visitors.

A weighted noncommercial lottery for launches by groups is burdensome and will be unworkable for the park and the applicants. A non-allocated system is inherently fair and must be adopted instead.

A non-allocated, common pool permitting system such as in Option B (pg. 24), must be adopted now.

A common pool system (Option B) should be phased in over 5 years: 20% of total allocation converted each year until all the use has been converted to a non-allocated permitting system.

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