TY - JOUR T1 - Carrying capacity assessment and recreational use in the national wilderness preservation system JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 162 LP - 166 VL - 36 IS - 3 AU - Randel F. Washburne Y1 - 1981/05/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/36/3/162.abstract N2 - 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. ER -