Managing outdoor recreation : case studies in the national parks / Robert E. Manning, Laura E. Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Managing outdoor recreation -- Parks and outdoor recreation -- Impacts of outdoor recreation -- Outdoor recreation management practices -- Evaluating outdoor recreation management practices -- Applying outdoor recreation management practices -- part 2. Case studies in the national parks -- Treading lightly on Acadia -- Building a better campsite along the Appalachian trail -- How many visitors is too many at Arches? -- Protecting Biscayne's underwater treasures -- Turning off the lights at Chaco -- Busing among the grizzlies at Denali -- Winning the lottery on the Colorado River -- The sounds of silence in Muir Woods -- Stewarding America's antiquities at Mesa Verde -- What goes up Mt Whitney must come down -- Preventing the petrifies forest from disappearing -- Bear etiquette in Katmai -- Don't pick up aquatic hitchhikers in Voyageurs -- A mountain with handrails at Yosemite -- Doing the Zion shuttle -- The buzz from above at Grand Canyon -- Managing monuments and memorials at the National Mall -- The winter wonderland of Yellowstone -- "Alternative transportation" at Grand Teton -- "No bad trip in Glacier" -- part 3. Conclusions -- Lessons learned -- Appendix A : Management practices -- Management practices for limiting use -- Management practices for increasing supply -- Management practices for reducing the impact of use -- Management practices for hardening resources and the visitor emperience -- Appendix B : Teaching and management tools.

This book addresses the issue of managing outdoor recreation to protect park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. The book is organized into three parts. Part I comprises five chapters that draw on the scientific and professional literature in parks and outdoor recreation to develop a systematic and creative approach to outdoor recreation management. Part II of the book presents a series of 20 case studies in managing outdoor recreation in the US National Parks. The 20 case studies span a considerable range of outdoor recreation-related problems and management practices, and a wide spectrum of national parks. Part III consists of a single chapter designed to extract an emerging set of principles that can be used to guide management of outdoor recreation.