FLORENCE-The Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area has posted its management plan online at parkplanning.nps.gov, the National Park Service’s website for planning and public comment, and is asking for feedback.
Anyone can access the plan at parkplanning.nps.gov/MSNHAplan, read it and submit comments. Deadline for comments is Oct. 3.
“The management plan is a framework for us, a constitution that will govern how MSNHA operates,” said Judy
Judy Sizemore-Director of Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area
Sizemore, MSNHA executive director. “It includes an interpretative plan with comprehensive actions and strategies for telling the area’s stories as well as a business plan and goals for the future.”
Sizemore and a planning team spent two years collecting data, putting the management plan together and holding public meetings to introduce and explain the plan. Now they are accepting online comments before revising the plan and submitting the final draft to the National Park Service, which oversees the National Heritage Area program.
Congress has designated 49 National Heritage Areas across the country in recognition of historical and cultural significance and natural resources. Operating under the University of North Alabama, in Florence, the MSNHA preserves and promotes the history and culture of a six-county region in northwest Alabama. It is the only National Heritage Area in Alabama.
For more information, contact the MSNHA at 256.765.5028 or msnha@una.edu
