🚀 go-pugleaf

There was a disturbing story in Sunday's San Jose Merc (p. 3B)
about development plans for the Manzanita Lake area of Lassen
N.P. The plan involves creation of a year-round visitor center at
the lake and to keep a road to it open through the winter. Park
biologists claim that the construction of the center and
increased visitor use in the area would probably result in the
extirpation of bald eagles from that section of the park, but the
park superintendent seems to be committed to the plan. Another
part of the plan is to increase the height of a dam at Manzanita
Lake by 44 feet for flood control purposes. This plan includes
cutting trees and rerouting 150 feet of Manzanita Creek into a
concrete channel. 
     All of this looks to me like another case of the Park
Service putting mechanized tourism ahead of ecosystem protection;
There was no information in the article about whether the comment
period for these actions was still open, or who one might protest
to--does anyone have any knowledge of this, or any experience
with the area in question?

                       NO MORE YOSEMITES!