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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Backcountry"”.
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Backcountry adventure as spiritual experience: a means-end study
… of what is meant when someone describes a backcountry adventure as spiritual. The second purpose of this study was to better understand the relationships between the attributes, consequences, and values (ACV) of the spiritual aspects of a backcountry adventure. Interviews were conducted …
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Backcountry Trails Near Stream Corridors: An Ecological Approach To Design
Traditional trails near backcountry stream corridors are often designed with disregard to their potential ecological impact. Ecological and trail related literature show that riparian landscapes are sensitive to recreation impacts. This thesis examines concepts for designing trails in ecologically …
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Estimating visitor use in the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park
… study estimated the number of visitors to the backcountry areas of Rocky Mountain National Park (ROMO), using an active infrared monitoring system. Techniques for conducting this type of visitor use estimation in not only a national park, but also in rugged wilderness areas are presented and …
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Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery In the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution
… entrenchment of slavery in the South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted …
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Demographics, Experiences, and Management Preferences of Backcountry Campers in Yellowstone National Park
<p>A questionnaire was distributed to backcountry campers in Yellowstone National Park for the summer of 2016. Upon registering for a backcountry camping permit, park rangers asked if campers would like to participate in the survey, which included questions regarding demographics and opinions on …
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A Soldier of the Revolution: Joseph Winston and the Surry Backcountry of North Carolina
Surry County was carved from the backcountry of North Carolina in 1771. On the eve of the American Revolution, Surry was a remote region whose settlers were concerned primarily with forging an existence from the semi-wilderness. The wealthier among them like Joseph Winston were involved in …
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Backcountry campsite conditions assessed for limits of acceptable change planning in Shenandoah National Park
… careful attention. This research presents backcountry campsite conditions found in Shenandoah National Park during 1992. It fuels a policy process grounded in Limits-of-Acceptable-Change (LAC). This context provides an opportunity to critique natural resource science within an LAC process …
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
… Scholars of early America and the southern backcountry have often narrated German cultural identity transformations along the lines of language and marriages. This work diverts from those tendencies, thereby complicating prior understanding of German-Americans settlement and development …
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A Comparative Analysis between Knowledge and Bear Safety Information Utilization by Day Hikers in Glacier National Park
… this study was to identify Glacier National Park backcountry day users’ bear safety information source utilization, obtain their knowledge level of bear safety, and identify any differences in knowledge level when compared to sources used. The results of this study were intended to provide park …
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A Comparative Analysis between Knowledge and Bear Safety Information Utilization by Day Hikers in Glacier National Park
… this study was to identify Glacier National Park backcountry day users’ bear safety information source utilization, obtain their knowledge level of bear safety, and identify any differences in knowledge level when compared to sources used. The results of this study were intended to provide park …
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Stakeholder representation in park planning: localized place meanings at Grand Canyon
… among localized stakeholders to the backcountry at Grand Canyon and follows up on that by asking the participants about their experience with the research itself. It is found that stakeholders who participated in this process expressed a natural form of caring and sensed the same in …
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Co-producing the nature-based adventure tourism experience: tourist, environment and management contributions
… that visitors compare their perceptions of backcountry conditions to their backcountry recreation norms. The comparison results in a sense of disturbance, which in turn influences satisfaction. This model synthesized research on the influences of different backcountry conditions that have …
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User fee for wilderness recreation: a comparison of user characteristics and travel cost demand functions for Linville Gorge wilderness area and Grandfather Mountain backcountry, North Carolina
… a federal free area, and Grandfather Mountain Backcountry, a nearby private fee area, to determine if fees would exclude any socioeconomic or other user group who presently uses wilderness and determine if fees are acceptable to users. The study compares users' socioeconomic characteristics and …
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An application of behavioral decision theory to recreation site selection
… the level of experience an individual had in backcountry use in the Southern Appalachians and the specificity with which they perceived attributes of the resource. The lexicographic semi-order choice model appears to be a feasible format for developing microcomputer-based decision aids for …
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Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830
… planters and yeoman farmers. The South Carolina backcountry developed during the decades of the Early Republic, reacting to the formative events of the nation during that time, such as the Second Great Awakening, the market revolution, and the War of 1812. The difficulties of these events …
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Achievement of Expectations in Leisure Travel Satisfaction: An Application of Expectation -Disconfirmation Theory
… is a reasonable fit understanding overnight backcountry visitor satisfaction, especially when it is integrated with the design of multiphase leisure travel experience.
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Changing People, Consistent Experiences: 20 Years of Change and Stability at Grand Canyon National Park 1984-2004
… is to examine long term changes in the overnight backcountry hiker population at Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) between 1984 and 2004. Longitudinal studies of visitor behavior in wildland recreation settings have been relatively rare but offer great potential for the improvement of management, …
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Commercialism, subsistence, and competency on the Western Virginia frontier, 1765--1800
… undoubtedly held an important place in the backcountry domestic economy, the settlers also interacted with the commercial market as both producers and consumers of a wide range of commodities. In the final analysis, this thesis adds to the growing body of scholarship which challenges the …
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