Hiker Use of Mountain Summits in Acadia National Park, 1997-1998
Jacobi C. 1999. Hiker Use of Mountain Summits in Acadia National Park, 1997-1998. Acadia National Park Natural Resources Report Number 99-2. National Park Service, Acadia National Park. Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME
A description of hiker use of mountain summits during 1997 and 1998. Following from the Introduction: "This report describes the results of two efforts to monitor trail use. The first is a continuation of a volunteer summit steward program begun in 1995. Through this program, volunteers educate hikers about low impact ethics and techniques and conduct counts of hikers on various summits. We last reported on this program after the 1996 summer hiking season (Jacobi 1997). Here we describe the results of the volunteer's summit counts from 1997 and 1998. The second effort was the Friends of Acadia ridgerunner program. In 1998, ridgerunners conducted ten censuses (six-hour counts) of hiker use of Sargent Mountain, and those results are also presented here. Ridgerunners also educate-hikers about low impact ethics." /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Bald Mountain/Beech Mountain/Champlain Mountain/Dorr Mountain/Gorham Mountain/Parkman Mountain/Pemetic Mountain/Sargent Mountain/Cadillac Mountain/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Jacobi, Charles
- Date of Issue
- 1999-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Acadia National Park
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Acadia National Park, Bald Mountain, Beech Mountain, Cadillac Mountain, Champlain Mountain, Dorr Mountain, Gorham Mountain, Hiking, Human Use, Management, ME, Monitoring, Parkman Mountain, Pemetic Mountain, Sargent Mountain, Trails