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Wilderness Protection: An Example from the Southern Sierra Nevada, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

David J. Parsons
David J. Parsons
Affiliation:
Research Scientist, National Park Service, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, California 93271, USA.
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The increasing popularity of national parks and other wilderness areas has focused attention on the need for effective wilderness management policies. In many cases active management programmes are required to assure that naturally functioning ecosystems are preserved. External influences such as air pollution, exotic species, and impacts from visitor-use, must be understood and controlled. This paper reviews a case-example of management strategies that were utilized to minimize visitor use-impacts in the backcountry wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada of California.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983 , pp. 23 - 30
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1983

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