ABSTRACT:
A 1979 survey of wilderness managers on problems, techniques, and management processes in the national wilderness preservation system (NWPS) indicated that carrying capacity assessment is far from complete and visitor-use densities are not clearly related to managers' perceptions of capacity situations or the need to ration use. A national assessment of recreational use in the NWPS suffers from the use of inconsistent units of measurement by the various agencies and nonsystematic data collection methods.
Footnotes
Randel F. Washburne is a social scientist with the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ogden, Utah 84401, located at Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, Montana 59801.
- Copyright 1981 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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