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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"campsites"”.
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Modeling Areal Measures of Campsite Impacts on the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, USA Using Airborne LiDAR and Field Collected Data
… has emphasized the need to professionally manage campsites for long-term use, particularly in light of rising visitation to natural protected areas worldwide. Camping regulations vary considerably along the length of any long-distance trail due to the many land types and management agencies …
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Integrating Geospatial Technology and Ecological Research in the Analysis of Sustainable Recreation Infrastructure
… linear corridors of visitor use and impact. Campsites and trails comprise the most visited and impacted components of recreation infrastructure; locations where protected natural area visitors spend the majority of their time and where the majority of resource impacts occur. Resource …
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Backcountry campsite conditions assessed for limits of acceptable change planning in Shenandoah National Park
… location, and legality of 743 backcountry campsites are reported, as revealed during a census completed using methods from recreation ecology. To assess the consistency and precision of campsite surveyors, techniques from educational measurement are adopted, including generalizability …
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Spatial Tools for Management of Protected Natural Areas: Case Studies in Camping Management and Trail Impact Assessment
… visitors to camp on excavated "side-hill" campsites in sloping terrain. One of the most degraded camping locations along the popular Appalachian Trail was selected for this longitudinal study, which, in May 2002, involved the closure of 19 existing campsites in flat terrain, with use …
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Aspects of Some Compacted Campground Ameliorating Practices
… effect on the amelioration of these deteriorated campsites. An attempt was also made to determine the natural recovery time for East Texas sandy loam soils using the campground closure method. Closure or partial (seasonal) closure of campsites reduced compaction to an acceptable level in three …
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Role of Entrepreneurs to the Development of Tourism in Arumeru District, Arusha Region
… and variety of accommodation, transport, campsites, curio shops and agriculture. Together with the expansion of entrepreneurs, the tourism industry does not meet the needs of tourists in Arumeru district. Entrepreneurs complained that they do not benefit from tourism activities due to high …
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A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
… the United Arab Emirates. These include Iron Age campsites at Muweilah, a shell-midden field and campsites at Hamriyah, burial sites in the Wadial-Qawr and an elite building at Muweilah. A program of ceramic research involving a combination of both visual and chemical fabric analyses and formal …
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Well Built in Albuquerque: The Architecture of the Healthseeker Era, 1900-1940
… sanatoriums, boarding houses, and rustic campsites. The architecture, design, and spatial patterning of this landscape reflected prevailing medical and social ideologies concerning both the disease and its cure. Chief among them were a fanatical confidence in the curative properties of …
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… years, both components are representative of campsites at which people were hunting and gathering resources locally before leaving. Without the spatial data obtained from the FCR, a spatial analysis would have been almost impossible to complete to the same degree of certainty.
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… years, both components are representative of campsites at which people were hunting and gathering resources locally before leaving. Without the spatial data obtained from the FCR, a spatial analysis would have been almost impossible to complete to the same degree of certainty.
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The Afar Caravan Route: Insights into Aksumite (50 BCE-CE 900) Trade and Exchange from the Low Deserts to the North Ethiopian Plateau
… remains of the Afar caravans included over-night campsites at transitions between the highlands and the lowlands and at major passes, and the presence of distinctive bread cooking stones on overnight campsites.</p> <p>Three major archaeological sites or ancient towns were discovered on the salt …
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Out of sight, but not out of mind: exploring how phytolith and geochemical analysis can contribute to understanding social use of space during the Neolithic in the Levant through ethnographic comparison
… methodology was applied to seven Bedouin campsites at Wadi Faynan, Jordan, which constituted the ethnoarchaeological data. This was done in order to test the methodology in a controlled setting where knowledge of the use of space at the sites was at hand. The campsites were either occupied …
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Minimizing Visitor Impacts to Protected Lands: An Examination of Site Management and Visitor Education Methods
… from a flat, open area to constructed side-hill campsites. A visitor questionnaire was administered before and after the treatment to determine visitors' ratings of importance and satisfaction for various campsite attributes. We found some evidence of visitor displacement but concluded that the …
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Assessing and Evaluating Recreation Resource Impacts: Spatial Analytical Approaches
… and mapping. Factor analysis of 195 established campsites on eight impact indicator variables revealed three dimensions of campsite impact: land disturbance, soil and groundcover damage, and tree-related damage. Cluster analysis yielded three distinctive campsite types that characterize both the …
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Making homes on the road: Transient mobility, domesticity, and culture in the United States, 1870s-1930s
… travels in the Midwest and West. In boxcars, campsites, and urban skid row districts, transients established communities, created poetry and song, forged intimacies, resisted law enforcement, and organized themselves through unions and fraternal organization. “Making Home on the Road,” …
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Architecture and/in place: Studying the physical and contextual connection between buildings and landscape
… there. This includes the Elands Bay caves and campsites discovered to the north of the town. There is currently no place in Elands Bay where this history can be portrayed. To give further credibility to the development of a museum, the Department of Art and Culture released a report in 2013 …
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A study on presumptive diagnosis and home management of childhood malaria among Nomadic Fulani in Demsa, Nigeria
… in children was collected from dry-season campsites in Demsa Local Government Area of Northeastern Nigeria. Mothers of under-five children with previous experiences at presumptive malaria management from 9 randomly selected nomadic Fulani camps were interviewed. The obtained information was …
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Geophysical Surveys and Spatial Analysis: Late Prehistoric Period Site Patterning at the Junction Site (DkPi-2)
… of space by Old Women’s phase people in winter campsites and processing camps.
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Soil physical impacts and recovery rates following human-induced disturbances in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica
… studies, from former research stations to field campsites, were investigated to assess the accuracy of the impacts predicted in environmental impact assessments and the observed impacts. In all cases there was a high level of consistency between predicted and observed impacts. It was apparent …
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The Mississippian Occupation of The Upper Kaskaskia Valley: Problems in Culture History and Economic Organization (Illinois, Ceramics)
… use was made of starchy seeds. Mississippian campsites were located in the uplands adjacent to the Kaskaskia valley along small tributary streams. These data suggested a settlement pattern similar to that of the historic Illinois tribes, who seasonally abandoned their valley bottom villages in …
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