Backcountry Recreation Management
in Protected Areas
[Prepared by Jeff Juthans, REM Graduate Student]
Gateway Sites
- Wilderness on the World Wide Web
http://www.forestry.umt.edu/people/borrie/wilderness/default.htm
This site is an extensive gateway site that offers many international
links that relate to wilderness. The primary categories include:
wilderness concepts, areas, management, policy, education and
advocacy.
- Natural Resources Research Information Pages
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leung/recres.html
This gateway site offers comprehensive sections of web links on
outdoor recreation research and another on related resource links.
The site also offers general literature references, on-line resources,
archives/databases, and related web sites of environmental NGO's,
academic programs and periodicals.
Other Links
- The National Park Services web site http://www.nps.gov/
provides a wealth of National Park Service information. The Planing
Projects Library section http://www.nps.gov/planning/planlib.htm
of ParkNet contains completed planning projects. The Natural Resource
Publications section http://aqsun.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/nrpntis.htm
of the website contains a list of publications from the NPS Technical
Information Center.
- The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute: Publications
List http://www.wilderness.net/Leopold/publist.htm
has an extensive publications list pertaining to wilderness management
related topics. The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
provides a list of publications that relate to backcountry visitor
management in protected areas.
- The U.S.D.A. Forest Service: Resource Valuation and Use
Research web site http://www.fs.fed.us/research/rvur/recreation/outdoor.htm
lists ongoing (Forest Service supported) outdoor recreation, cultural
heritage, social science and wilderness research projects. Research
projects are summarized and contact names and numbers are given.
- The web site of the Canadian Heritage - Parks Canada
Library http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/library/indexe.htm
offers information relating to the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum
(ROS) planning model and its application to two wildernesses type
national parks.
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