Wilderness Recreation Experiences: The Rawah Case

Brown, Perry J.; Haas, Glenn E.

doi:10.1080/00222216.1980.11969447

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“…Their major reported motivations to visit Starkey Hill were "to enjoy nature" (95.1%), "for physical exercise" (91.5%), "to escape the pressures of everyday life" (65.9%), "to socialize with friends and family" (59.8%), "for solitude and tranquility" (59.8%) and "for personal reflection" (53.7%). These reported motivations are supported by past motivational research on recreational uses who participate in activities in natural areas (Walker et al, 1998;Ribe, 1994;Virden and Knopf, 1989;Brown and Haas, 1980).…”

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confidence: 51%

“…Managers can facilitate the ability of users to realize their desired experiences by ensuring that the settings that contribute greatly to their experiences are made available (Manfredo et al, 1983;Brown and Haas, 1980). This study identified specific setting attributes and experience preferences of users by assessing the effect of recreational use impacts on hiking experiences in natural areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research on recreational experiences in natural areas has predominantly been focused on the wilderness experience (Kliskey, 1998;Patterson et al, 1998;Ribe, 1994;Brown and Haas, 1980). The wilderness experience embodies such aspects as autonomy, spontaneity, solitude, freedom of action, challenge, risk, spiritual values, and aesthetic appreciation (Kliskey, 1998;Ribe, 1994;Brown and Haas, 1980).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effects of recreational use impacts on hiking experiences in natural areas

Lynn

Brown

2003

Landscape and Urban Planning

151

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This study investigated the relationship between recreational use impacts and hiking experiences in natural areas. The effects of trail erosion, extension and widening, muddiness, tree and plant damage, fire rings, and litter were related to four dimensions of recreational experiencessolitude, remoteness, naturalness, and artifactualism. Recreational use impacts were found to have a negative effect on hiking experiences in natural areas. Litter, tree and plant damage, and fire rings had the greatest effect on hiking experience indicators; trail extension and widening and trail erosion had a moderate effect; and muddiness had a minimal effect on experience. Information generated through this study should assist in appropriate planning, design, and management of natural areas to maintain ecological integrity and to provide for quality hiking experiences.

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Effects of recreational use impacts on hiking experiences in natural areas

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Brown

2003

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Thus the purpose of the current study is to examine whether wilderness users' attitudes toward management actions (e.g. restrictions on use) vary depending on their motives for visiting the national parks and wildernesses, as proposed by some previous research (Brown & Haas 1980, Virden & Schreyer 1988, Shultis 1999. Our empirical data come from a sample of visitors to DovrefjellSunndalsfjella National Park in southern Norway.…”

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Linking visitor motivation with attitude towards management restrictions on use in a national park

Gundersen

Mehmetoglu

Vistad

et al. 2015

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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The increasing demand for visiting wilderness areas often requires management actions that both conserve the natural resources and ensure a high quality visitor experience. Many of the alpine national parks in southern Norway hold the last remaining populations of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Europe. Therefore management needs more effective tools to reduce or remove recreational impact on wild reindeer populations. Management actions should also consult research-based knowledge on visitors. Therefore, this study explores the link between visitor motivations and their attitudes towards management actions on track-related -The strategy of 'area restriction' is highly controversial for local communities, due to their long tradition with subsistence harvesting, grazing and traditional agriculture; therefore such a strategy will receive only low approval among the locals and leave the management with low legitimacy at the local level.-The strategy of 'management of the track system' will affect most non-local visitors, but these visitors are more flexible in adapting to a new trail system in the area, or may shift to another area.-Visitors with strong place attachment, as well as wilderness seekers who desire solitude are difficult to influence with physical management actions.-A management strategy that will limit the area of use and behaviour of off-track visitors should include information about ecosystem vulnerability.4

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“…Wilderness visitors generally believe that the attributes described in these three core themes define wilderness (Brown and Haas 1980, Hall 2001, Kaye 2000, Kendra and Hall 2000. However, the complexity of human experiences suggests that many factors contribute in known and unknown ways to the experience of solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation.…”

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Monitoring selected conditions related to wilderness character: a national framework

Landres¹,

Boutcher²,

Merigliano³

et al. 2005

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________________________________________One of the central mandates of the 1964 Wilderness Act is that "each agency administering any area designated as wilderness shall be responsible for preserving the wilderness character of the area." Although wilderness comprises about 20 percent of National Forest System lands (over 35 million acres), the agency lacks a way to evaluate progress in fulfilling this mandate. This document, developed by the Forest Service Wilderness Monitoring Committee, lays the conceptual foundation for a national assessment of how wilderness character is changing over time. The purpose of this monitoring is to provide managers a tool they can use to answer key questions about wilderness character and wilderness stewardship:• What is the current state of wilderness character?• How is wilderness character changing over time?• How are stewardship actions affecting wilderness character?• What stewardship priorities and decisions would best preserve wilderness character?This monitoring uses the Section 2(c) Definition of Wilderness from the 1964 Wilderness Act to identify four statutory qualities of wilderness, from which specific monitoring questions and key monitoring indicators are derived. The status and trends of these national indicators are monitored, allowing managers to evaluate how selected conditions and stewardship actions related to wilderness character are changing over time within a wilderness. This Framework provides the conceptual basis for combining this information into a single integrated assessment of wilderness character within an individual wilderness, and whether it is degrading, stable, or improving over time. This information is compiled for upward reporting, allowing regional and national program managers to evaluate how wilderness character is changing and the effectiveness of wilderness programs and policies to preserve wilderness character. No national standards are developed or comparisons made among wildernesses in terms of their wilderness character because each wilderness is unique in its legislative, administrative, social, and biophysical setting. While this monitoring will provide vital information, it is only a portion of what could, and should, be monitored in wilderness and of wilderness character. Keywords

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Wilderness Recreation Experiences: The Rawah Case

Cited by 55 publications

References 12 publications

Effects of recreational use impacts on hiking experiences in natural areas

Effects of recreational use impacts on hiking experiences in natural areas

Linking visitor motivation with attitude towards management restrictions on use in a national park

Monitoring selected conditions related to wilderness character: a national framework

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