| ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Franz Lake NWR.**********Project         Contacts:** You can e-mail your comments using the link below, or mail         or fax comments as follows.        Refuge Manager        Ridgefield NWR Complex        PO Box 457        Ridgefield, WA 98642        Phone: 360/887-4106         FAX: 360/887-4109

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Information         Updated: August 2004 | ************************************************Steigerwald       Lake, Franz Lake, and Pierce National Wildlife Refuges****Comprehensive Conservation Plan********************************************
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**Current         Status:**The         U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has developed a Draft Comprehensive Conservation         Plan (CCP) and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Steigerwald Lake,         Franz Lake, and Pierce National Wildlife Refuges (Gorge Refuges). The         Draft CCP/EA is available below for public review and comments. A brief         summary of the Draft CCP/EA is provided in Planning         Update #3.

**Documents Available         Online:**The following         documents may take a few minutes to          download using Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). A free         copy of the Adobe software is available from the Adobe website.

**The Gorge Refuges         Draft CCP/EA Documents Follow:**Draft CCP/EA****

**Other Gorge Refuges         Documents         Referred to in the Draft CCP/EA Follow**:        Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge Gateway Center Environmental         Assessment issued June 1999 (116kb)

Draft         Fire Management Plan for the Steigerwald Lake, Franz Lake, and Pierce         National Wildlife Refuges (PDF 62 KB)

**The Planning Updates         and Public Notices,        Listed Chronologically According to Date, Follow:**Notice         of Intent to Prepare a Draft CCP and EA, and Notice of Public Meetings,         issued August 2000 (HTML 15kb)Planning         Update #1, issued September 2000 (PDF 413kb)Planning         Update #2, issued May 2001 (PDF 573kb) 

Planning         Update #3, issued August 2004 (PDF 590kb)

Notice         of Availability of the Draft CCP and EA issued August 2004 (PDF 15kb) |
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