We have a month or so for public comment, I'd like to know whether the MP takes the Valley water table into account.
Setting the water table will control the landscape for hundreds of years.
I understand that a rock barrier was blown up to drain the Upper Valley, and that a dam was built and subsequently
blown up at the Valley mouth.
Setting the table(s) to that which existed at the end of the Little Ice Age (1850) would drown a lot of pine trees and increase
meadows to around half of the Valley floor instead of the present 6-7%. Mirror Lake could be a lake again?
Restrict most human construction and all occupation to the bath-ring of forest between the river/meadows and the fall zone.
The wild Merced river gets breathing room, few man-made objects lost in a 1000-year flood, & the visitor viewscape
will be similar to that enjoyed by John Muir, & all the other pioneers.