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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"wilderness areas"”.
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Fire-on-Fire Interactions in Three Large Wilderness Areas
… wildfires on subsequent large wildfires in three wilderness areas: The Greater Bob Marshall, the Selway-Bitterroot, and the Frank Church. Data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project, which mapped large wildfires in the western United States occurring since 1984, are used for …
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Fire-on-Fire Interactions in Three Large Wilderness Areas
… wildfires on subsequent large wildfires in three wilderness areas: The Greater Bob Marshall, the Selway-Bitterroot, and the Frank Church. Data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project, which mapped large wildfires in the western United States occurring since 1984, are used for …
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Spatial and Temporal Land Use Change in Southern Illinois' Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness Areas
… of land use change in a southern Illinois wilderness area. The study area is the Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness areas. Land patent and Forest Service acquisition records were compiled with spatial and temporal elements of land transfers examined utilizing a geographic information …
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Cultural Wilderness: How the Historical Evolution of American Wilderness Values Influence Cultural Resource Management within Wilderness Areas in National Parks
… for understanding the evolving concept of wilderness in the United States, and the ways in which that concept has advanced or impaired preservation policy within designated Wilderness areas.The perceived conflict between wilderness and culture has changed over time and created disconnect …
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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
… in the United States are not always confined to wilderness areas. The growth of population centers and housing developments in wilderness areas has blurred the boundaries between rural and urban. This merger of human development and natural landscape is known in the wildland fire community as the …
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Perception of natural recreation resources at Inanda
… the concern of the study are as follows: picnic areas, camping areas, fishing areas, wilderness areas and watersport areas. Recreation supply is gradually diminishing and demand for recreation space is increasing. Seemingly, that is due to urban encroachment that is rapidly affecting the area.
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Wilderness Nation: Building Canada's Railway Landscapes, 1885-1929
… vast landscapes, which are often identified as "wilderness." This thesis explores the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's use of architecture, landscape, and spatial techniques to construct Canadian concepts of wilderness during a crucial period of national expansion, economic growth, and cultural …
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Spatial Accessibility to Public Outdoor Recreation Destinations from Austin, Texas, 2010
… index of spatial accessibility to public outdoor wilderness areas from origins within the Austin urban areas to determine relative levels of accessibility to the outdoors from the urban core. We also seek to discover demographic characteristics of those with a high or low degree of spatial …
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Windfalls for Wilderness: Land Protection and Land Value in the Green Mountains
… of land near Green Mountain National Forest wilderness areas in a hedonic price model reveals a positive relationship between proximity to protected wilderness and market values for residential properties. The applications of this result include improved consideration of the positive economic …
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Wilderness visitor managment and Antarctic tourism
… increasing numbers of tourists who are visiting wilderness areas in Antarctica. Previous research has addressed Antarctic tourism largely as a policy issue. This research looks at Antarctic tourism in the context of the debate on wilderness and focuses on the implications for tourism and on the …
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Visitor Characteristics, Attitudes, and Management Preferences of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex
<p>The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex (BMWC) encompasses 3 federal wilderness areas and spans over 1.5 million acres of iconic mountains and valleys in northwestern Montana. Here visitors can find a plethora of recreation opportunity that give access to some of the most rugged country that can be …
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Knowledge and Meanings of Wilderness and Wildlife Refuges among Okefenokee Visitors on guided Intrepretive Tours
… on knowledge and value questions about federal wilderness areas and national wildlife refuges. Tours into the Okefenokee Swamp Wilderness are conducted by a National Wildlife Refuge concessionaire. Interpretive tour guides participated in a training session on the purposes and values of …
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Dynamo in the Desert: Energy Development and Environmental Contestation in the San Juan Basin, 1960-1985
… legal control over land, and the designation of wilderness areas within coal regions.
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Can process facilitation re-route ecotourism development? : case studies in facilitating ecotourism planning in South Africa and Madagascar
… phenomenon that has significant impacts on wilderness areas around the world (Honey 1999). Ecotoursim projects that have shown to be successful in achieving sustainability² are however rare³, despite the hope and funding that continues to be invested into them⁴. In order to distribute the …
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Estimating visitor use in the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park
… 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 include; …
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Cultural Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Evaluating Wilderness Values in Public Land Settings
The Wilderness Act of 1964 states the purpose of the National Wilderness Preservation System is "to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness." But, how to accomplish this mandate is a complex task. The application of the …
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Management requirements for tourist landing sites in the maritime Antarctic and a model plan for Deception Island, South Shetland Islands
… plan for an ASMA. Plans from six other wilderness areas are evaluated to determine common criteria that are essential for management. The requirements for an ASMA contain all of these criteria, except those pertaining to enforcement by a sovereign authority. Without provisions for …
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The Traditional Wilderness Conception, Postmodern Cultural Constructionism and the Importance of Physical Environments
… has emerged between advocates of the traditional wilderness concept and those who believe that this concept is merely a cultural construction. The traditional wilderness conception viewed wilderness as an objective place separate from humans that is defined by being primarily shaped by natural …
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The House That Smokey Built: The Forest Service Management of Historic Structures in Wilderness
… Service Management of Historic Structures in Wilderness Committee Chair: Dr. Perry J. Brown Debates about the appropriateness of historic structures being present and preserved in wilderness are not new issues. In some form or another, this topic has surfaced, been debated, then simmered, but …
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