Customized front panel wooden horse stable bamboo material horse stall

Customized front panel wooden horse stable bamboo material horse stall

A No Action Alternative is required for consideration as part of the National Environmental Policy Act. This alternative encompasses the existing facilities, ongoing stable management, and operation practices that are relevant for a comparison with the proposed action alternatives. The No Action alternative establishes baseline conditions at the six project site locations. These conditions form the basis against which the action alternatives, the magnitude and extent of the proposed changes and the environmental effects of those changes, can be compared. No Action for this project would be the retention of existing GGNRA stable facilities, management and operations, and horse numbers. For the two sites with no existing equestrian stables, Marincello and Lower Redwood Creek, no changes would occur under the No Action Alternative and use or development would be determined by future NPS planning. Under the No Action Alternative, only those incremental improvements and adjustments that are required by law, regulation, and policy would be implemented. For example, implementation of site and program access for the disabled would be implemented in accordance with National Park Service regulations. Site and program accessibility, and universal design concepts would be incorporated in all new and renovated sites, facilities, services and programs to achieve the highest level of accessibility that is reasonable, while ensuring consistency with the other legal mandates of conservation and protection of the resources, per NPS policy. This includes rehabilitating existing facilities (including historic buildings and cultural landscapes) where public programming is introduced at sites currently lacking such programming. Changes could also occur at the sites as a result of other existing planning projects such as Park transportation projects and the Trails Forever planning projects.

Under the No Action Alternative, per NPS permit, a visitor riding experience would continue to be offered only at Tennessee Valley stables. Visitor services would continue to include information, maps, and toilet facilities at each site, and a picnic table is available at the Rodeo Valley site. Informal horse trailer parking would continue to be available at the Tennessee Valley parking lot and near the Rodeo Valley site, but not the Golden Gate Dairy or Lower Tennessee Valley site. Overnight, short-term ―horse hotel‖ accommodations for up to four visiting horses at the Tennessee Valley site and up to eight visiting horses at the Rodeo Valley site would continue to be available. The Park Horse Patrol would continue to operate from Lower Tennessee Valley.

Under the No Action Alternative no additional modifications to sites or facilities would be implemented except those needed for NPS Architectural Barriers Act Accessibility Guidelines (ABAAG) compliance as determined by the NPS. The number of overnight horse hotel sites available for reservation by visitors who trailer their own horses to the park would remain unchanged. Toilet facilities at the Golden Gate Dairy, Rodeo Valley, Tennessee Valley, and Lower Tennessee Valley sites would continue to include an operator-provided portable toilet. In addition, the NPS would maintain the existing residential sewage field septic system at the Tennessee Valley site. Overnight caretakers would continue to be resident at the Tennessee Valley site only, and posting of safety and emergency procedures would continue to be handled differently at each stable. The Tennessee Valley site would continue to have two 500-gallon water tanks supported by an emergency generator and fuel for fire suppression purposes; Rodeo Valley and Golden Gate Dairy currently have pressurized treated water available.

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