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Inventory & Monitoring of Visitor Use and
ExperiencesTroy Hall
Visitor Use ManagementMissoula, MT
April 2005
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What is inventory?What is monitoring?Why do we do them?
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Social ImpactsSocial ImpactsConflict Crowding
Solitude
“Experience Quality”
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How do you decide if you are providing high quality experiences?
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Wilderness Experience:Wilderness Experience:““Solitude or a primitive and Solitude or a primitive and
unconfined type of recreation”unconfined type of recreation”
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What conditions do you monitor?What conditions could you monitor to tell you about status and trends?
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Do we monitor an indicator or the experience itself?
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RMNP Backcountry/Wilderness Plan
“Visitors…should have the opportunity for a variety of personal outdoor experiences, ranging from solitary to social”“The visitor experience should relate intimately to the splendor of the wilderness resource of RMNP”Solitude and challenge are specifically emphasized; freedom discussed a little
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White River NF Plan
PRISTINE“Opportunities for solitude and self-reliance are excellent”“No more than two other parties encountered during cross-country travel per day on 80% of the days during each use season”“No other party within sight or sound of campsites should be encountered on 80% of the days in the summer and fall”
PRIMITIVE“Moderate to high occasions of solitude while traveling and camping outside the trail corridors”“Moderate-to-high level of risk and challenge”“No more than 12 parties encountered per day on trail 80% of the time”“No more than 6 campsites in sight/sound 80% of the days”
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SEMI-PRIMITIVE“Encounters with other users may be frequent”“low-to-moderate opportunities for solitude”No more than 20 other parties encountered on trail 80% of the time”No standard for camps in sight/sound
White River NF Plan
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Mt. Hood Forest Plan Social Standards“Encounters with other groups shall be limited to no more than ten groups per day in semi-primitive areas, and no more than six groups per day in primitive areas, during 80 percent of the primary recreational use season.”
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Selecting indicators – what to monitor
Not all indicators are equally useful
Valid (significant), RelevantMeasurable/ReliableResponsive
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Selecting social indicators
3 main choices:1. Document use trends2. Observe visitors3. Talk to visitors
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1. Documentation of Use Levels
Often done for overnight, but not daymay require compliance checkingInfo can be quite valuableCan be costly
John Muir/Ansel Adams and Dinkey Lakes FEIS
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1. Documentation of Use Levels
Many handbooks and examples are availablePros and cons of use measurement systems
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2. Observing Visitors
Documentation of encountersOther observations?
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Monitoring Encounters - Considerations
Source of data?Sampling
TimingDurationLocations
Training/standardization
DefinitionsAdditional data
Concurrent data on use levels
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Monitoring Encounters – Using the Data
Organization by locationStandardizing time frameAnalysis by day of week
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3. Talk to Visitors
Less common as a form of monitoringOften used to help in setting standards
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Shenandoah- Visitor Responses
Encounters Per 8 Hours
Cedar Run 27.5
Jones Run 9.2
Upper Hazel
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Shenandoah- Visitor Responses
Encounters Per 8 Hours
% Felt Solitude
% Time In Solitude
Cedar Run 27.5 87 84.5
Jones Run 9.2 100 90.4
Upper Hazel
28.6 100 93.4
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Talking to Visitors - Issues
Obtaining visitor inputOMB clearanceWhat conditions to ask aboutHow to ask specific questionsWhich people to survey
Identifying proper indicatorsFor many visitors, there’s a weak correlation between encounters and solitude
How to use the data
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Coping with lack of resources
Volunteers?Staggered observations?Internships?
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Update: Wilderness Monitoring Committee
Statutory qualitiesNaturalUntrammeledUndevelopedOutstanding opportunities
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ConclusionsUnderstand why you are monitoring and how you will use the data before you startConsider the spatial and temporal scope of needed dataHow important is the issue? How accurate do you need to be? How much information do you need before you act?
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Snow Lake study