At Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (“Gates”
for short), unique conditions exacer-bate this challenge and highlight the need for a better understanding of the nature of wilderness experiences and the various factors that threaten or facilitate them. Wilderness visitor studies have typically focused on par-ticipants ’ evaluations of pre-deter-m...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.489.9889 http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2003_glaspell_b001.pdf |
| Summary: | for short), unique conditions exacer-bate this challenge and highlight the need for a better understanding of the nature of wilderness experiences and the various factors that threaten or facilitate them. Wilderness visitor studies have typically focused on par-ticipants ’ evaluations of pre-deter-mined dimensions (such as solitude) by using surrogate measures (such as perceived crowding). In contrast, the project described here began with a qualitative investigation that allowed |
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