Phase 1 Project Report National Park Service Coastal Visitor Impact Monitoring
Monz C and Leung Y. 2003. Phase 1 Project Report National Park Service Coastal Visitor Impact Monitoring. National Park Service
A preliminary examination of the feasibility of assessing Coastal Visitor Impacts. This report details the findings of the initial, observational phase of a research project examining the development of appropriate indicators of visitor impacts to natural resources in eastern coastal and barrier island areas managed by the National Park Service. Preliminary observations and manager interviews suggest that visitor impacts are a concern at most of the seven NPS areas examined, but the extent and type of concern is somewhat area-specific. Within zones of high resource protection and across all of the areas examined, visitor impact concerns fall into two major categories, 1) trampling impacts to vegetation and soils and 2) visitor impacts to wildlife and wildlife habitat. A literature review on coastal visitor impacts, area-specific reports and preliminary selection of monitoring indicators are provided.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Monz, Christopher; Leung, Yu-Fai
- Date of Issue
- 2003-03
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ASIS , COLO , FIIS , GATE , GEWA , NCBN , SAHI , THST
- Keywords
- Visitor Impacts, Visitor Use, Visitors
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Visitor and Recreation Use | Visitor Use