Abstract In areas where farmland borders protected areas, wildlife may be attracted to crops and cause substantial financial damage for farmers. Elephants, in particular, can destroy a year's harvest single night, also buildings other farm structures. Few studies have examined whether caused by wild elephants increases social inequalities farmer communities. We interviewed settlement leaders su...

Including threats in spatial conservation prioritization helps identify areas for conservation actions where biodiversity is at imminent risk of extinction. At the global level, an important limitation when identifying spatial priorities for conservation actions is the lack of information on the spatial distribution of threats. Here, we identify spatial conservation priorities under three promi...

Wilderness experiences are thought to be comprised of three primary dimensions, including social, resource, and management conditions. Decisions about how to manage wilderness recreation in Denali National Park and Preserve involve potential tradeoffs among these conditions. This study extends the normative approach to wilderness research by developing and applying a decision-making model thai ...

The purpose of this paper is to present sufficient evidence that wilderness group therapy is capable of acting as the ideal treatment modality for adolescent survivors of sexual abuse. Existing literature regarding adolescent development, childhood sexual victimization, treating this population, and the nature of wilderness group therapy has been consulted, synthesized, and is presented here. T...

ilderness management researchers and practitioners have long recognized that wilderness experiences are influenced by the social conditions experienced (e.g., the number of other groups encountered), the resource conditions experienced (e.g., the amount of human impact at camping sites), and the management conditions imposed (e.g., the number of backcountry permits issued; Hendee et al. 1990). ...

This paper examines public support for new user fees established at the Desolation Wilderness in California as part of the Fee Demonstration Program. Traditional approaches to fee policy evaluations have typically focused on economic or revenue issues and equity impacts of various pricing strategies. Support for fees has been shown to vary by users in terms of attitudes toward fees, nature of u...

Increasingly, wilderness managers must choose between the objective of wildness (“untrammeled” wilderness) and the objectives of naturalness and solitude. This dilemma has surfaced with awareness of the pervasiveness of human influence in wilderness and that regulation is often the only way to maintain outstanding opportunities for solitude. Should we trammel wilderness to compensate for unnatu...

One of the more enduring beliefs about decision making is that if we think hard enough, and are rational and objective enough, we can make better choices. This advice works well when our decisions are clearly defined and time is plentiful. But in wilderness settings, our decisions are less clear and time is short, and the standard advice is not only cumbersome but, in some cases, dangerously mi...

Like conservation-induced displacement, human-wildlife conlict (HWC) has potentially negative implications for communities in and around protected areas. While the ways in which displacement emerges from the creation of ‘wilderness’ conservation landscapes are well documented, how the production of ‘wilderness’ articulates with intensiications in HWC remains under examined both empirically and ...

We describe regional patterns of variation in dead wood across 20 million ha of upland forests of all ownerships in Oregon and Washington, based on an analysis of data on snags and down wood collected on over 16,000 field plots. Current patterns of dead wood are highly variable and complex. The strongest differences were among nine habitats that reflect strong regional gradients in physical env...