Tradeoffs Among Social, Resource, and Management Attributes of the Denali Wilderness Experience: A Contextual Approach to Normative Research

Lawson, Steven R.; Manning, Robert E.

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“…This suggests that indicators of biophysical impact are particularly important. In Denali National Park, Lawson and Manning (2002) also found that concern about resource conditions was most important to wilderness visitors. However, it is important to note that there is often little congruence between visitor abhorrence of the idea of biophysical impact and their obliviousness to the reality of the impacts actually encountered in wilderness.…”

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Wilderness visitors, experiences, and management preferences: How they vary with use level and length of stay

Cole¹,

Hall²

2008

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You may order additional copies of this publication by sending your mailing information in label form through one of the following media. Please specify the publication title and series number. Fort Collins Service Center AbstractWe explore the extent to which visitor experiences and management preferences vary between the most heavily used places in wilderness and places that are less popular. We also contrast day and overnight users. The study was conducted in Forest Service administered wildernesses in Oregon and Washington using both on-site and mailback questionnaires. The on-site questionnaires were administered as visitors exited the wilderness at 36 trailheads in 13 wildernesses. The trail use ranged from very high to moderate. To include visitors who selected low use trails, we sent mailback questionnaires to self-issue permit holders. We describe visitor characteristics, trip characteristics, motivations and experiences, encounters with other groups, attitudes toward recreation management, and opinions about the Forest Service. Differences related to use level were surprisingly small. Differences between day and overnight users were also small. We found evidence that wilderness experiences were adversely affected at high use locations but most visitors consider these effects to be of little importance. Most visitors to the more popular places make psychological adjustments to heavy use, allowing most of them to find solitude and have what they consider "a real wilderness experience." Consequently, most are not supportive of use limits to avoid peoplerelated problems. We draw conclusions about potential indicators, standards, and management actions for heavily-used places in wilderness.

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Wilderness visitors, experiences, and management preferences: How they vary with use level and length of stay

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2008

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“…Indicators such as number of people at one time, and resource impacts to trails and campsites have traditionally been used. Manning, et al (2002) suggest that indicators of quality of visitor experiences at heavily used sites may vary from those conventionally used in the backcountry. The expansion of the carrying capacity concept from backcountry to urban-proximate, frontcountry and built recreation environments is a step toward identifying appropriate indicators of visitor experience at such settings.…”

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“…Is it acceptable to shift a percentage of peak season use to the low use period of the season, or does the historically low use period of the season offer a type of wilderness experience that should be preserved? While these judgments must ultimately be made by managers, a growing body of recreation research has been conducted to provide managers with a more informed basis for making such judgments (Lawson & Manning, 2001a, 2001b, 2002a, 2002bManning & Lawson, 2002).…”

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“…However, these studies have examined impacts to the visitor experience using "traditional" crowding-and encounter-related indicators such as number of people at one time, and number of hikers per hour. Manning et al, (2002) suggest that visitors at developed and heavily used recreation sites are often concerned with crowding and other recreation related impacts, but that these impacts may be manifested in other ways. Potential indicators of quality may therefore vary from those used in traditional carrying capacity research.…”

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“…For example, Opaluch et al (1993) described an approach that used paired comparisons to rank potential noxious facility sites in terms of social impacts. Dennis (1998) used a conjoint ranking survey to solicit public preferences for various levels of timber harvesting, wildlife habitats, hiking trails, snowmobile use, and off-road-vehicle (ORV) access on the Green Mountain National Forest, and Lawson and Manning (2002) assigning numerical ratings to each option. Numerical ratings provide the most information but also place the greatest cognitive demands on respondents.…”

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Shuart¹

2004

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Tradeoffs Among Social, Resource, and Management Attributes of the Denali Wilderness Experience: A Contextual Approach to Normative Research

Cited by 65 publications

References 28 publications

Wilderness visitors, experiences, and management preferences: How they vary with use level and length of stay

Wilderness visitors, experiences, and management preferences: How they vary with use level and length of stay

Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife

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