The role of people, place and process in implementing a promising backcountry monitoring program: Riding Mountain National Park. From: Environments | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Campbell, J. Michael; MacKay, Kelly J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Wilfrid Laurier University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

As technological advances allow visitors to travel faster and further into the backcountry regions of parks, the pattern of recreational use is changing. This is likely to result in an increase in impacts. Environmental impacts from recreational use of parks and protected areas have received some academic attention. Few parks and protected areas, however, have successfully implemented and maintained programs aimed at monitoring these impacts, particularly in bac...