RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Carrying capacity assessment and recreational use in the national wilderness preservation system
JF Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
FD Soil and Water Conservation Society
SP 162
OP 166
VO 36
IS 3
A1 Washburne, Randel F.
YR 1981
UL http://www.jswconline.org/content/36/3/162.abstract
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.