Enjoy the View—visual resources inventory report: Mojave National Preserve
Meyer M and Hughson D. 2016. Enjoy the View—visual resources inventory report: Mojave National Preserve. Natural Resource Report. NPS/MOJA/NRR—2016/1322. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Each unit of the national park system has special visual characteristics that are often a central component to the unit’s management and visitor experience. Mojave National Preserve (NP) offers visitors vast expanses of mostly undisturbed Mojave Desert but the seemingly barren landscape has a rich history of pre-historic and historic human use. The existing scenery is an important way to better understand the connection between natural and cultural resources and visualizing this connection is a critical part of the visitor experience. As part of the National Park Service’s Call to Action #38,Enjoy the View, Mojave NP completed a visual resource inventory that focused on identifying key facts about the scenic views for a portion of the Preserve. The inventory was completed according the methodology developed by the National Park Service (NPS) for assessing and protecting visual resources. The inventory system consists of both fieldwork associated with view description and scenic quality ratings, and an office-based process for assigning importance values to the views. Mojave NP selected six views for the initial visual resource inventory to inform internal view management objectives and help develop external view conservation goals. The results of the inventory identified that all the views except for one fell into the very high category of scenic inventory value.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Meyer, Mark; Hughson, Debra
- Date of Issue
- 2016-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ARD , MOJA , NRSS