PDF: Recreation Use Allocation: Alternative Approaches for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex
Citation
Cable, S., & Watson, A. E. (1998). Recreation Use Allocation: Alternative Approaches for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex (RMRS-RN-1). Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
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Summary
The allocation of recreation use is a task that has
challenged wilderness managers throughout the National
Wilderness Preservation System for nearly two decades. This
note reviews and evaluates approaches for allocating wilderness
recreation use between commercially outfitted, institutionally
outfitted, and nonoutfitted visitors to wildlands. Of
the 17 identified approaches to allocation, 11 of those are
sufficiently defined to allow a comparative evaluation to
determine how these approaches are able to address eight
wilderness recreation allocation goals. The analysis results
in a relative ranking of alternatives from most suitable to
least suitable for addressing the stated goals. Although this
evaluation was conducted specifically for one area (the Bob
Marshall Wilderness Complex in Montana), the methods
reviewed and results obtained are likely to be applicable to
other wildernesses and wildland recreation areas with some
site-specific modifications.
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