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How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches?

How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches?. How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches?. Problem: trampling of fragile soils and vegetation ( microbiotic soil crust); crowding Strategies: limit use; reduce the impact of use

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How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches?

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  1. How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches?

  2. How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches? • Problem: trampling of fragile soils and vegetation (microbiotic soil crust); crowding • Strategies: limit use; reduce the impact of use • Practices: zoning; information/education; facility development/site design/maintenance; law enforcement; rationing/allocation • Carrying capacity/Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) • Two-fold mission of NPS • Increasing use of national parks/Arches National Park • Arches National Park • Delicate Arch

  3. How Many Visitors is Too Many at Arches? • Ed Abbey • Program of research • Indicator of quality: crowding • Standard of quality: maximum acceptable level of use (people at one time (PAOT)) • Sizing of parking lots/parking regulations • Permit systems for other areas • Information/education: Web site; park newspaper; film; signs; Visitor Center; interpretive programs; Facebook and Twitter • Signs and fencing along trails • Monitoring

  4. Arches National Park

  5. 1. Formulate management objectives and associated indicators and standards of quality. 2. Monitor indicators of quality. 3. Implement management practices to maintain standards of quality.

  6. Range of Acceptable Conditions Optimal or Preferred Condition 4 3 2 Minimum Acceptable Condition 1 Norm Intensity or Salience Acceptability 0 -1 -2 Crystallization (Dispersion around points defining the norm curve) -3 -4 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Number of Groups Encountered Along A Trail Per Day

  7. Social Norm Curve for Delicate Arch

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