Trails and Campsites: Kuskulana and Kotsina Trail and Campsite Inventory and Monitoring
Connery B, Teare KA, Meyers CR. Trails and Campsites: Kuskulana and Kotsina Trail and Campsite Inventory and Monitoring. 1984
The inventory objectives were: 1) to provide a basic inventory and description of trails and campsites as documentation for subsequent monitoring of conditions to evaluate impact trends; 2) to provide a system for monitoring management actions; 3) to provide accurate and meaningful information about changes that have already occurred on campsites and trails; 4) to develop a system of ranking and weighting individual rating factors to provide a meaningful aggregate rating; 5) to establish priorities for future monitoring programs and research needs; and 6) to identify areas in critical need of management action at the present or in the future. The Kotsina Road and the Kuskulana Trail were chosen for specific management baseline inventory and documentation. The1984 inventory of Kotsina Road and Kuskulana Trail backcountry trails and associated campsites to establish baseline data for future management decisions and for evaluating changes that have occurred. Both roads were sampled and assigned an impact class rating according to methods developed by Cole (1983). Campsites located along high-use trails were inventoried and evaluated based on total campsite area, barren ground, vegetation density and composition, litter/duff, tree damage and root exposure, firewood availability, extent of campsite development, cleanliness, number of access trails, visual impact, distance to water, and distance to roads and airstrips.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Connery, Bruce; Teare, Kathleen; Meyers, Cynthia
- Date of Issue
- 1984
- Units
- CAKN , WRST
- Keywords
- campsite inventory, DatasetCatalog, Environmental Monitoring, impact class rating, Monitoring, Trail degradation, trail inventory, Wrangell - St Elias National Park, WRST
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Visitor and Recreation Use | Visitor Use