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:

Download or read book Monitoring Selected Conditions Related to Wilderness Character written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 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 Weminuche Wilderness Monitoring Plan for Air Quality Related Values written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Air Quality Monitoring in the Teton and Gros Ventre Wilderness Areas written by Andrew R. Allgeier and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Packstock in Wilderness written by Mitchel P. McClaran and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tracking Opportunities for Solitude written by Miguel Macias and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the project is to develop a program to monitor solitude opportunities in the Jennie Lakes Wilderness. The wilderness in question is located in the central Sierra Nevada mountains approximately sixty miles east of Fresno, California. The Jennie Lakes Wilderness is managed by the Sequoia National Forest and is surrounded by the Giant Sequoia National Monument and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. The Wilderness Act of 1964 mandated that wilderness areas are to provide opportunities for solitude, but the problem for the Jennie Lakes Wilderness is that there is no clear, consistent objective or plan to evaluate if solitude opportunities are available. This project will introduce a program to monitor the solitude quality and provide baseline data to determine the current conditions. This project will also present and discuss the planning and development process, including the management of data, for building a solitude monitoring program. Within the project, the encounter monitoring program will provide the framework for collecting solitude opportunities data and analyzing the data against standards created specifically for Jennie Lakes Wilderness. The resulting data will offer baseline information for the development of a Wilderness Management Implementation Plan which will contain management actions that maintain and/or improve solitude opportunities. The creation of the Wilderness Encounter Monitoring Program will require an examination of the present model and framework being used by the Forest Service. The discussion will introduce and integrate the Limits of Acceptable Change model and the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum, and include a review of the minimum requirements for national and local-level upward reporting. At the heart of the project, there are three parts that make-up the foundation of the program and each is questioned to offer rational for the program. The first will outline the planning elements including the purpose of the Wilderness Recreation Opportunity Spectrum for formulating standards, and a detailed description of the relationship between the opportunity classes and the monitoring areas. The second part describes the protocol and instruction to monitor the solitude quality along with a tutorial in operating data collection tools, and third is the step-by-step procedure to analyze and store solitude data. These three elements are the essential building blocks in the design of the Wilderness Encounter Monitoring Program. The development and implementation of this program would help fulfill the need to meet stewardship goals for Jennie Lakes Wilderness. Many sources were referenced for the making of this project. Congressional legislation, U.S. Forest Service General Technical Reports, as well as agency manuals containing policy provided support. A review of existing literature described the factors of solitude within wilderness which also included journal articles describing the connection between spirituality, wilderness, and solitude. Other sources included textbooks, non-fiction wilderness books, and government websites that specialize in wilderness management. Lastly, daily reports in patrol logs from wilderness rangers and personal experience assisting wilderness rangers provided a non-scientific investigation to current trends. All the sources provided valuable information to begin the process of developing a program that monitors for solitude. This project contains a program to monitor the solitude quality in the Jennie Lakes Wilderness and details the justification to implement the program. Because a Wilderness Management Implementation Plan or a solitude monitoring program is not currently in place, and federal legislation and agency policy mandate solitude opportunities in wilderness, this project will reveal the benefits of having a detailed plan to gather baseline solitude encounters data and will urge for the implementation of this program to advance wilderness stewardship for Jennie Lakes Wilderness.

Download or read book Applying the Concept of Wilderness Character to National Forest Planning Monitoring and Management written by U. S. Department Agriculture and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Forest Service is responsible for managing over 35 million acres of designated wilderness, about 18 percent of all the land managed by the agency. Nearly all (90 percent) of the National Forests and Grasslands administer designated wilderness. Although the central mandate from the 1964 Wilderness Act is that the administering agencies preserve the wilderness character in these designated areas, the concept of wilderness character has largely been absent in Forest Service efforts to manage wilderness. The purpose of this publication is to help National Forest planners, wilderness staff, and project leaders apply in a practical way the concept of wilderness character to forest and project planning, the National Environmental Policy Act process, on-the-ground wilderness management, and wilderness character trend monitoring that is relevant to an individual wilderness.

Download or read book Applying the Concept of Wilderness Character to National Forest Planning Monitoring and Management written by Peter Landres and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Forest Service is responsible for managing over 35 million acres of designated wilderness, about 18 percent of all the land managed by the agency. Nearly all (90 percent) of the National Forests and Grasslands administer designated wilderness. Although the central mandate from the 1964 Wilderness Act is that the administering agencies preserve the wilderness character in these designated areas, the concept of wilderness character has largely been absent in Forest Service efforts to manage wilderness. The purpose of this document is to help National Forest planners, wilderness staff, and project leaders apply in a practical way the concept of wilderness character to forest and project planning, the National Environmental Policy Act process, on-the-ground wilderness management, and wilderness character trend monitoring that is relevant to an individual wilderness.

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 Management written by John C. Hendee and published by Fulcrum Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic reference on wilderness stewardship and protection, revised and updated.

Download or read book Monitoring Selected Conditions Related to Wilderness Character written by United States Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central mandates of the 1964 Wilderness Act is that "each agency administering any area designated as wilderness shall be responsible for preserving the wilderness character of the area." Although wilderness comprises about 20 percent of National Forest System lands (over 35 million acres), the agency lacks a way to evaluate progress in fulfilling this mandate. This document, developed by the Forest Service Wilderness Monitoring Committee, lays the conceptual foundation for a national assessment of how wilderness character is changing over time.

Download or read book Area specific Recreation Use Estimation Using the National Visitor Use Monitoring Program Data written by Eric M. White and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates of national forest recreation use are available at the national, regional, and forest levels via the USDA Forest Service National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) program. In some resource planning and management applications, analysts desire recreation use estimates for subforest areas within an individual national forest or for subforest areas that combine portions of several national forests. In this research note we have detailed two approaches whereby the NVUM sampling data may be used to estimate recreation use for a subforest area within a single national forest or for a subforest area combining portions of more than one national forest. The approaches differ in their data requirements, complexity, and assumptions. In the "new forest" approach, recreation use is estimated by using NVUM data obtained only from NVUM interview sites within the area of interest. In the "all-forest information" approach, recreation use is estimated by using sample data gathered on all portions of the national forest(s) that contain the area of interest.

Download or read book Monitoring Visitor Use in Backcountry and Wilderness written by Steven J. Hollenhorst and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obtaining accurate and usable visitor counts in backcountry and wilderness settings continues to be problematic for resource managers because use of these areas is dispersed and costs can be prohibitively high. An overview of the available methods for obtaining reliable data on recreation use levels is provided. Monitoring methods were compared and selection criteria were developed based on units of measure, efficiency and affordability, validity and reliability, and compatibility with agency objectives. Using these selection criteria, some general recommendations of methods for monitoring visitor use in wilderness and backcountry were derived. Permit methods offer the benefit of obtaining extensive and accurate use data, but have high administrative costs and are inconvenient for visitors. Registration techniques provide extensive data and are particularly applicable where rationing use is not a management objective. Permit and registration techniques, however, do require considerable resources to validate for visitor noncompliance. Indirect counts with electronic or mechanical devices in combination with self-report surveys or self-registration meet most management and research needs by providing data on total use and meaningful information about the type of use. Proper study design controlling for sampling bias can make this combined approach an attractive alternative.

Download or read book Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenic vistas in most U.S. parklands are diminished by haze that reduces contrast, washes out colors, and renders distant landscape features indistinct or invisible. Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas describes the current understanding of the nature and extent of haze in various regions of the United States. The book addresses the scientific and legal framework of efforts to protect and improve visibility, as well as methods for assessing the relative importance of anthropogenic emission sources that contribute to haze in national parks and for considering various alternative source control measures. The volume provides guidance on how to make progress toward the national goal of correcting and preventing visibility impairment due to human activities affecting large national parks and wilderness areas.

Download or read book Defining Wilderness Quality written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: