Managing Outdoor Recreation - 9781845939311

Manning and Anderson (both environmental and natural resources, U. of Vermont) address the issue of managing outdoor recreation to protect park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. They begin by drawing on the scientific and professional literature on parks and outdoor recreation to develop a systematic and creative approach to outdoor recreation management. Those chapters cover parks and outdoor recreation, impacts of outdoor recreation, and management practices and evaluating and applying them. Then they present 20 case studies of US national parks. Among the fanciful titles are building a better campsite along the Appalachian Trail, busing among the grizzlies at Denali, a mountain with handrails at Yosemite, and the buzz from above at Grand Canyon. To conclude, they set out 36 principles they gleaned from their study. Distributed in the US by Styluis Publishing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)