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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"blue ridge parkway"”.
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Prescribed burning for vegetation management on the Blue Ridge Parkway
… of vegetation. Ten scenic overlooks on the Blue Ridge Parkway were selected for treatment. The experiment is a randomized incomplete block design. Four permanent transects were delineated in each unit for vegetation sampling. Four one-by-five meter plots were sampled on each transect for the …
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Impacts of adjacent land use on Blue Ridge Parkway costs
… the cost of providing recreation services on the Blue Ridge Parkway were modeled using cross-sectional linear regression techniques. Twelve Parkway segments and corresponding adjacent counties provided the study sample. Total and per visit annual costs were expressed as a function of segment …
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Protecting Scenic Views: Seventy Years of Managing and Enforcing Scenic Easements along the Blue Ridge Parkway
… to examine scenic easements acquired for the Blue Ridge Parkway in the 1930's and 40's and to develop an understanding of the challenges faced by the Parkway in attempting to enforce the terms of scenic easements drafted nearly 70 years ago. The scenic easements acquired for the Blue Ridge …
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A study of Blue Ridge Parkway use by area residents with the development of a demand model
Recognizing that a substantial portion of Blue Ridge Parkway visitation is made by the local population, this study was initiated as an effort to collect specific information on the characteristics of local Parkway use and to develop a demand model of local use based on the findings. The results …
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Policy capturing with the use of visual stimuli: a method of quantifying the determinants of landscape preference
… to express their preferences for scenes of the Blue Ridge Parkway (Virginia and North Carolina). A multivariate linear model simulating each judge's decision was computed by regressing landscape preferences onto 10 dimensions thought to influence such preferences. An equation which "captures," …
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Adaptive Longitudinal and Lateral Control for Autonomous Vehicles: High-Speed Platooning of Articulated Trucks
… and actual roadways like sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and South Grade Road in California, validated the integrated framework. Despite minor anomalies in high-stress conditions, the results demonstrate acceptable performance in terms of spacing errors, relative velocities, …
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Systematic studies of some pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpionida) from the southeastern United States
… Breaks Interstate Park, Dickinson Co., Virginia; Blue Ridge Parkway, Floyd Co., Virginia; Mt. Lake, Giles Co., Virginia; and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Specimens were obtained from these collections by employing the Berlese apparatus. For mounting the specimens, the procedure …