Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trends in Wilderness Visitors and Visits
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trends in Wilderness Visitors and Visits
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Wilderness Visitors, Experiences, and Management Preferences
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
We explore the extent to which visitor experiences and management preferences vary between the most heavily used places in wilderness and places that are less popular. We also contrast day and overnight users. The study was conducted in Forest Service administered wildernesses in Oregon and Washington using both on-site and mailback questionnaires. The on-site questionnaires were administered as visitors exited the wilderness at 36 trailheads in 13 wildernesses. The trail use ranged from very high to moderate. To include visitors who selected low use trails, we sent mailback questionnaires to self-issue permit holders. We describe visitor characteristics, trip characteristics, motivations and experiences, encounters with other groups, attitudes toward recreation management, and opinions about the Forest Service. Differences related to use level were surprisingly small. Differences between day and overnight users were also small. We found evidence that wilderness experiences were adversely affected at high use locations but most visitors consider these effects to be of little importance. Most visitors to the more popular places make psychological adjustments to heavy use, allowing most of them to find solitude and have what they consider "a real wilderness experience." Consequently, most are not supportive of use limits to avoid people related problems. We draw conclusions about potential indicators, standards, and management actions for heavily-used places in wilderness.
Trends in Wilderness Visitors and Visits
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts: Baseline Data Available for Twentieth Century Conditions
Author: David ColePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480163836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established a National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) "to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness." The Act states that wilderness areas shall be administered "for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness." Moreover, it is the responsibility of each agency that administers wilderness to preserve each area's "wilderness character." Since 1964, more than 100 pieces of legislation have created an NWPS of over 100 million acres, in well over 600 individual wildernesses, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS); and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service (FS). To provide for the use and enjoyment of these areas, while preserving their wilderness character, it is important for management agencies to monitor wilderness recreation visitors and the impacts they cause. Some people state that the Wilderness Act mandates that recreation impacts not be allowed to increase following wilderness designation (Worf 2001). Ideally, baseline conditions should be inventoried at the time each area is designated as wilderness and added to the NWPS, and then periodically monitored in the future to assess trends in conditions and the efficacy of existing recreation management programs. Such data will become increasingly valuable to future attempts to evaluate trends in the wilderness character of each area in the NWPS. Although baseline recreation conditions have been inventoried in many wildernesses, such data are lacking in many others. Moreover, the distribution of wildernesses with baseline recreation data is not equitable across the nation or the four agencies that manage wilderness. This report is an assessment of Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts: Baseline Data Available for Twentieth Century Conditions David N. Cole Vita Wright the status of baseline recreation monitoring data for all wildernesses in the NWPS at the end of the twentieth century. It documents the proportion of the NWPS that has baseline data on recreation visitors and impacts, which wildernesses have this data, and where they are located. It identifies the types of data that have been collected, the types of sampling designs that have been employed, and how and where data have been stored. This compilation should help researchers identify wildernesses where trends can be assessed and help wilderness managers identify other managers who might be contacted about how to initiate and implement new studies. The data listed in this report are all we will ever have to gain perspective on the condition of designated wilderness in the twentieth century regarding recreation visitors and impacts. Because managers and the interested public, in future decades and centuries, will want to know what these places were like, these data will become increasingly valuable. Although some of the data are published in reports or have been carefully archived, most are stored on paper files in ranger offices, where they are vulnerable to loss. We strongly encourage agency personnel to recognize the future value of this data and invest in archiving it in such a manner that its perpetuation is ensured. These data could be the basis for valuable assessments of recreation and impact trends across the NWPS. This report begins with an overview of the status of recreation-related monitoring across the NWPS. Three types of studies are surveyed: those that provide (1) campsite impact data, (2) trail impact data, and (3) information about visitor characteristics.
Trends in Wilderness Visitors and Visits
Author: David N. ColePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365692683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Excerpt from Trends in Wilderness Visitors and Visits: Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Shining Rock, and Desolation Wildernesses For some of the variables, such as household income, responses were in discrete classes, some of which had no upper bound (such as income greater than For these variables, the significance of differences was assessed with t-tests based on the midpoints of each class. For classes without an upper or lower bound, a likely median value was assigned to each response in that class. For example, all visitors who responded that their income was greater than were as signed an income of The median was used as a measure of central tendency and was calculated by identifying the class that contained the median and then interpolated to estimate the precise median. The variables analyzed in this way were educational attainment and household income. Results have been subdivided into four categories visitor characteristics, visit characteristics, wilder ness conditions and evaluations of those conditions, and visitor preferences for social conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Visitor Perception of Wilderness Recreation Carrying Capacity
Author: George H. StankeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness area users
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Changes in the Motivations, Perceptions, and Behaviors of Recreation Users
Author: Troy Elizabeth HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
We describe how wilderness visitors perceive changes in wilderness use, impacts, and management. We examine how visitors have responded to change, both behaviorally and cognitively. The study was based on a sample of visitors to 19 Forest Service wildernesses in Oregon and Washington. Many respondents said the types of wilderness trips they take have changed since their earlier wilderness trips. Most perceived adverse change. Use has increased (particularly day use), resulting in crowding and a widespread sense that these places seem less like wilderness than they did in the past. Most of these visitors learned to cope with these adverse changes by either adjusting the way they think about these places or by adjusting their behavior. Cognitive coping, particularly rationalization, is very common. Most visitors do not consider changing conditions to be very problematic, probably because their coping mechanisms are successful. This explains lack of support for management actions that restrict access. Very few visitors cannot cope with crowded conditions. Displacement of visitors away from crowded places does not seem prevalent enough for concern about increased crowding and biophysical impact in places in wilderness that are currently lightly used or the validity of on-site visitor surveys.
Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description