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We are pleased to announce the availability of the Revised Land and Resource Management Plan for the Croatan National Forest.  

For your convenience we have posted on this website copies  of the Revised Croatan Plan  and the accompanying Plan Appendices, Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision.  

You can also contact our office to request paper copies of the  Croatan Plan and FEIS.  We also have these documents available on CD ROM. To obtain either paper or CD versions of the Croatan Plan and FEIS, call our Forest Service Asheville office at 828-257-4200, or send an e-mail to cmilholen@fs.fed.us.  In your e-mail please specify whether you want the CD version or paper copies. 

Following are the Croatan Plan  documents available online. They are all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view and print these files. They are best viewed using Acrobat Reader 4.0 or 5.0.  You can obtain this software free from Adobe Acrobat Online.

All of the these  PDF files should have bookmarks  that allow you to go from one document to another and to different chapters and sections within each document. Those pages that include color graphics will be somewhat slower to load.

Unless you have a very fast internet connection, you may experience difficulty viewing these PDF files online from within your Netscape or Internet Explorer web browsers because of the large file sizes.  If this is the case, we suggest that you download the files to your computer before trying to view them. You can download these files by right clicking the file link and, when prompted, saving the files to your computer.  Then you can open them from your computer hard drive using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or 5.0.

News Release: Revised Croatan Forest Plan Released (2/14/03) 87.7 kb PDF

Letter From the Forest Supervisor  105 kb PDF 

Record of Decision 478 kb PDF

Final  Croatan Land and Resources Management Plan  4.74 mb PDF
    (recommended only for those with high speed internet connections.)

Plan Appendices    5.0 mb PDF

High Resolution  Forest Plan Map  6.1 mb PDF
(  25" by 27" full color map most suitable  for printing on a large format plotter.)

Final  Environmental Impact Statement  13.7 mb PDF

If you need any help in downloading these files, contact Terry Seyden at  828-257-4202 or E-mail him at tseyden@fs.fed.us. For more information about the Croatan Plan contact the Forest Service offices in Asheville 828-257-4200 or in New Bern, NC  252-638-5628.