Wilderness visitor experiences
Subtitle: progress in research and management : 2011 April 4-7,  Missoula, MT
Contributors: Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Series: Proceedings RMRS -- P-66; Proceedings RMRS -- P-66.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Fort Collins, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Wilderness area users; Congresses; Wilderness areas; Recreational use; Management
Description: The workshop was convened to celebrate and review 50 years of research on wilderness visitor experience and its influence on wilderness stewardship. These proceedings are organized in three sections. The first section contains 12 papers that review literature or describe empirical research about wilderness visitor experiences. The second section provides three papers on management frameworks and the perspectives of planners and managers. The third section consists of five papers on wilderness experiences and the future.
Notes: Cover title.

"The Wilderness Visitor Experience Workshop was held at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest near Missoula, MT, April 4-7, 2011"--P. i.

"July 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: I. REVIEWS AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; title: Wilderness visitor experiences: lessons from 50 years of research / David N. Cole, Daniel R. Williams; title: Continued wilderness participation: experience and identity as long-term relational phenomena / Jeffrey J. Brooks, Daniel R. Williams; title: Immediate conscious experience in wilderness: a phenomenological investigation / Troy E. Hall, David N. Cole; title: Visitors' conceptualizations of wilderness experiences / Erin Seekamp, Troy Hall, David Cole; title: Wilderness naturalness, privacy, and restorative experiences: an integrative model / William E. Hammitt; title: Wilderness experiences as sanctuary and refuge from society / William T. Borrie, Angela M. Meyer, Ian M. Foster; title: The effect of use density and length of stay on visitor experience in wilderness / David N. Cole, Troy E. Hall; title: Wilderness experience quality: effects of use density depend on how experience is conceived / David N. Cole, Troy E. Hall; title: The impact of technology on the wilderness experience: a review of common themes and approaches in three bodies of literature / John Shultis; title: The influence of hand-held information and communication technology on visitor perceptions of risk and risk-related behavior / Steven R. Martin, Kristen Pope; title: Wilderness experience programs: a state-of-the-knowledge summary / Chad P. Dawson; Keith C. Russell; title: Wilderness at arm's length: on the outside looking in at special provisions in wilderness / Alan E. Watson; title: II. MANAGEMENT PERESPECTIVES AND FRAMEWORKS; title: Planning for wilderness experiences: challenges and strategies / Kerri Cahill; title: Humans apart from nature? Wilderness experience and the Wilderness Act / Mark Fincher; title: Frameworks for defining and managing the wilderness experience / Robert E. Manning; title: III. WILDERNESS FUTURES; title: Potential roles of research in enhancing the performance of management in securing and maintaining high quality visitor experiences in wilderness / Stephen F. McCool; title: Research needs for a better understanding of wilderness visitor experiences / Stephen F. McCool, Chad P. Dawson; title: Managing for wilderness experiences in the 21st century: responding to the recent wilderness critique / Joseph W. Roggenbuck; title: Creating public memory of wilderness / William Stewart; title: Imagining wilderness / Daniel Dustin, Jeff Rose, Adrienne Cachelin, Wynn Shooter, Scott Schumann.