169 In: McCool, Stephen F.; Cole, David N.; Borrie, William T.; O’Loughlin, Jennifer, comps. 2000. Wilderness science in a time of change conference— Volume 2: Wilderness within the context of larger systems; 1999 May 23–27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-2. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Carolyn Alkire is Resource Economist,...

There is a growing body of research documenting the benefits of outdoor adventure and wilderness-based programs with a variety of special populations. Criticisms of this body of research are that it is not grounded in theory and it is outcome-based, with no investigation into the processes causing the behavior change in individuals. This study attempted to investigate the processes that occurre...

OBJECTIVE The presence of coliform bacteria indicates a watershed risk for harboring microbes capable of causing human disease. We hypothesized that water from watersheds that have different human- or animal-use patterns would have differing risks for the presence of coliform bacteria. METHODS; Water was collected in wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada range in California. A total of 60 sites...

T he Boreal White and Black Spruce Zone forms part of a vast boreal forest that stretches across northern Canada from Newfoundland to the Yukon. In many ways, this zone fits the popular image of the Canadian north as a place with large areas of unspoiled wilderness, long cold winters, and abundant wildlife. Forests and muskeg dominate the landscape , and moose, caribou, bears, and wolves are pl...

Search and rescue personnel volunteers spend thousands of hours attempting to ultimately save the lives lost people. One most effective ways increase speed locating a person is by predicting highest probable areas they may be located in determining search around them. This study examined demographics behaviour people Australian wilderness from perspective authorities themselves order assess sim...

Abstract Background Wilderness areas are important natural laboratories for scientists and managers working to understand fire. In the last half-century, shifts in culture policy of land management agencies have facilitated practice letting some naturally ignited fires burn, allowing fire fulfill its ecological role increasing extent fire-related research opportunities. With goal identifying gl...

Fire management has always meant fire suppression to the managers of the chaparral covered southern California National Forests. Today, Forest Service fire management programs must be cost effective, while wilderness fire management objectives are aimed at recreating natural fire regimes. A cost-effectiveness analysis has been developed to compare fire management options for meeting these objec...

A reviewed monograph considers the problem of wilderness. According to author, wilderness should be considered as Wilderness overcomes anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric limitations all attempts theoretically justify need protect wilderness, including environmental philosophy, bioethics, religious concepts environment, etc. Therefore, author offers a "nobody's nowhere" view only it can rev...