ABSTRACT:
Canoesists generally perceived safety hazard behaviors as the most serious problems on nine Virginia rivers, followed by environmental impact and social conflict behaviors. Perceptions varied considerably, however. Canoeists labeled as not serious many actions that might violate a leave-no-trace land ethic.
Footnotes
Joseph W. Roggenbuck is an assistant professor of forestry, Alan C. Smith is a graduate research assistant, and J. Douglas Wellman is an assistant professor of forestry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacks-burg, 24061. The North Central Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service, supported this research.
- Copyright 1982 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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