PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Randel F. Washburne
TI  - Carrying capacity assessment and recreational use in the national wilderness preservation system
DP  - 1981 May 01
TA  - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
PG  - 162--166
VI  - 36
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/36/3/162.short
4100  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/36/3/162.full
AB  - 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.