Download or read book Monitoring the condition of wilderness campsites written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the condition of wilderness campsites written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wilderness Campsite Monitoring Methods written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes information on techniques available for monitoring the condition of campsites, particularly those in wilderness. A variety of techniques are described and evaluated; sources of information are also listed. Problems with existing monitoring systems and places where refinement of technique is required are highlighted.

Download or read book Monitoring the Condition of Wilderness Campsites written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the Condition of Wilderness Campsites Classic Reprint written by David N. Cole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Monitoring the Condition of Wilderness Campsites In recent years, managers have been under pressure to im prove the Sophistication and accountability of wilderness management. Regulations in the National Forest Management Act of 1978 specifically require Forest Service wilderness managers to limit and distribute visitor use in such a way that natural conditions are largely unimpaired and to monitor the response of the wilderness resource to these actions. Much of this effort must be focused on campsites, the places that are most severely altered by recreational use and among which visitor use may have to be limited and distributed. Unfortunately, funding for the collection of data needed for wilderness management is sorely lacking compared to funding available for collecting data used in the management of other resources, such as timber. Access to most wilderness acreage is poor; motor vehicles are not allowed and many remote areas are not even penetrated by trails. Moreover, many areas have thousands of sites that must be inventoried. This paper discusses desirable characteristics of a backcountry campsite inventory and monitoring system, evaluates existing methods, and provides suggestions for developing a system that builds on the strong points of existing techniques. 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.

Download or read book Wilderness Campsite Monitoring Methods written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Limits of Acceptable Change LAC System for Wilderness Planning written by George H. Stankey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wilderness Campsite Monitoring Methods written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trends in Campsite Condition written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wilderness Visitors and Recreation Impacts Baseline Data Available for Twentieth Century Conditions written by David Cole and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Developing a Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Program for Visitor Impacts on Recreation Sites written by Jeffrey Lawrence Marion and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Defining Managing and Monitoring Wilderness Visitor Experiences written by Brian Glaspell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wilderness Campsite Impacts written by David N. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subalpine lakeshore campsites were studied in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oreg. Light-use campsites had experienced almost as much alteration as moderate- and heavy-use sites. Sites set back from lakeshores had changed as much as lakeshore sites. Selected indicators of ecological change were evaluated. Implications of this research to management of wilderness campsites are discussed.

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