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Managing outdoor recreation : case studies in the national parks
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- Creator
- Robert E. Manning and Laura E. Anderson
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 243 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781845939311, 184593931X, 9781780641874, 1780641877
- OCLC
- ocn779777883
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 1. Managing outdoor recreation -- Parks and outdoor recreation -- Impacts of outdoor recreation -- Outdoor recreation management practices -- Evaluating outdoor recreation management practices -- Applying outdoor recreation management practices -- pt. 2. Case studiesin the national parks -- Treading lightly on Acadia -- Building a better campsite along the Appalachian trail -- How many visitors is too many at Arches? -- Protecting Biscayne's underwater treasures -- Turning off the lights at Chaco -- Busing among the grizzlies at Denali -- Winning the lottery on the Colorado River -- The sounds of silence in Muir Woods -- Stewarding America's antiquities at Mesa Verde -- What goes up Mt Whitney must come down -- Preventing the petrifies forest from disappearing -- Bear etiquette in Katmai -- Don't pick up aquatic hitchhikers in Voyageurs -- A mountain with handrails at Yosemite -- Doing the Zion shuttle -- The buzz from above at Grand Canyon -- Managing monuments and memorials at the National Mall -- The winter wonderland of Yellowstone -- "Alternative transportation" at Grand Teton -- "No bad trip in Glacier" -- pt. 3. Conclusions -- Lessons learned -- Appendix A : Management practices -- Management practices for limiting use -- Management practices for increasing supply -- Management practices for reducing the impact of use -- Management practices for hardening resources and the visitor emperience -- Appendix B : Teaching and management tools