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Author | : Warren Vinson Pierce (III) |
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Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2015 |
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As the United States becomes increasingly urbanized, the importance of federally designated wilderness areas as places of reflection and refuge from city life becomes even more apparent. These wilderness areas provide visitors with opportunities for solitude, recreation, and connecting with nature. Wilderness has long been important to American society, influencing the likes of John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry David Thoreau. With the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, the assurance that these areas would remain protected in perpetuity for the enjoyment of the American people was enshrined into law. While these wilderness areas remain protected by Federal law, increasing visitation rates and changing social norms may begin to threaten the so-called "wilderness experience," making it difficult for visitors to enjoy and experience the conditions set forth in the Wilderness Act. Wilderness managers must therefore seek to understand the attitudes, preferences, and motivations of wilderness visitors using these areas to ensure that management conditions provide for a high-quality wilderness experience. This study uses quantitative survey methods to explore differences in management preferences, wilderness conditions, and crowding perceptions between overnight and day visitors to wilderness areas. Visitors were surveyed at 30 trailheads throughout the Olympic National Park Wilderness during the summer of 2012. While wilderness visitors held many similar opinions on management preferences and wilderness conditions, there were differences in the degree to which they agreed or disagreed. Overnight visitors tended to be more sensitive to crowding than day visitors, both on hiking trails and at attraction sites, and were more supportive of management policies that limited access in favor of increasing opportunities for solitude experiences. This study supports the use of a management by objectives framework that incorporates indicators and standards of quality to ensure that certain conditions are met. Findings from this study can aid in the development of standards for crowding and the establishment of other management policies in Olympic National Park Wilderness to ensure that all visitors are provided with the opportunity for a high-quality wilderness experience.
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Download Olympic National Park (N.P.), General Management Plan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John C. Hendee |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Wilderness areas |
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Author | : John C. Miles |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295990392 |
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Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence. The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to the turn of the twenty-first century. The Service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground. Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations.
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Download Olympic National Park (N.P.), Olympic Wilderness, Proposed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Roger Contor |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
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Download A Vision for Wilderness in the National Parks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Download Olympic National Park (N.P.), Mountain Goat Management Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Download Lake Crescent Management Plan, Olympic National Park (N.P.) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region |
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Forest management |
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