PDF: Maintaining the Quality of Park Resources and Visitor Experiences: A Handbook for Managers

Citation
Anderson, D.H., Lime, D.W., Wang, T.L. (1998). Maintaining the Quality of Park Resources and Visitor Experiences: A Handbook for Managers. St. Paul, Minnesota: University of Minnesota.

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Summary The handbook is a resource for public land managers who have identified unacceptable impacts to resources and visitor experiences and want to act to eliminate them. In this handbook, only visitor-caused impacts are addressed. Specifically, the handbook assists managers in: -Identifying strategies for addressing unacceptable visitor-caused impacts, and -Selecting appropriate management tactics for managing unacceptable visitor-caused impacts. The handbook is divided into three parts. Part one outlines a decision process that helps managers analyze problems related to visitor us and options for solving them. Part two provides three worksheets to implement the decision process. Each worksheet is designed to aid managers at various stages in the decision process. Part three describes 25 different management tactics that can be used to address unacceptable impacts to resources and visitor experiences. The tactics are organized into five different categories. Each category contains tactics that are similar in some way to the other tactics in that category.

Keywords
parks, visitor experience, site management, management tactics, visitor use impacts, rationing, allocation, regulations, enforcement, visitor education