SWAN Monitoring Visitor Use
Southwest Alaska Network. SWAN Monitoring Visitor Use. 2007. National Park Service
Human activities were identified as an important agent of change in SWAN ecosystems. Recreational use by visitors and guides presents two resource protection issues in the parks: (i) direct impact to physical resources, plant and animals from actions such as vehicle use and camping, and (ii) indirect impacts such as disturbance or displacement of wildlife from actions such as aircraft over-flights. Because of the impacts that human recreation can have on the environment, visitor use was was seen as an important vital sign for SWAN. Management also placed importance on knowing when and where people were visiting the park. Visitor use counts provided by CUA activity reports provide a low-cost means of estimating the potential impacts to park resources. In addition, they provide parks with enough data to allocate NPS staff to areas of high use. The goals of the monitoring are: Document the number of visitors in parks monthly and annually, as recorded by CUA activity reports. Document visitor use days monthly or annually in specified areas of the parks as recorded by the CUA activity reports.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ALAG , ANIA , KATM , LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- Activity, commercial operation
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Visitor and Recreation Use | Visitor Use
Program
Products
- Monitoring visitor use in the Southwest Alaska Network using commercial use authorization (CUA) reports: Protocol narrative version 1.0
- Visitor Use in Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use Data at Katmai National Park and Preserve and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve from 2007-2020
- Southwest Alaska visitor use monitoring areas
- Visitor Use in Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use Data
- Visitor Use in Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Standard Operating Procedure 1: Data Acquisition and Retention Version 1.0. Monitoring visitor use in Southwest Alaska Network
- Standard Operating Procedure 2: Data Analysis and Reporting Version 1.0. Monitoring visitor use in Southwest Alaska Network
- Standard Operating Procedure 3: Data Management Version 1.0. Monitoring visitor use in Southwest Alaska Network
- Standard Operating Procedure 4: Revising the Protocol Version 1.0. Monitoring visitor use in Southwest Alaska Network
- Data quality standards for visitor use monitoring
- Visitor Use Reporting System (VURn) Commerical Use Authorization Holder User Guide
- Visitor Use Reporting System (VURn) Commerical Use Authorization Holder User Guide
- Visitor Use Reporting System (VURn) CUA Holder User Guide Instructional Videos
- Visitor Use Areas - Interior Region 11 - Alaska
- The utilization distribution: wildlife research methods as a tool for understanding visitor use in remote parks and protected areas
- Evaluation of the Bear Viewing Experience and Associated Thresholds at Katmai National Park and Preserve and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, 2017-2020, Research Report
- The economic contributions of bear viewing in southcentral Alaska
- A method to value nature-related webcam viewing: the value of virtual use with application to brown bear webcam viewing
- Challenges and solutions for applying the travel cost demand model to geographically remote visitor destinations: A case study of bear viewing at Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Evaluation of the brown bear viewing experience at Katmai National Park and Preserve: implications for management
- Visitor Use in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use in Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use at Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use - Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use - Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use- Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
- Visitor Use- Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Backcountry Visitor Impact Assessment in Katmai National Park and Preserve and the Alagnak Wild River, 2007
- Southwest Alaska Network long-term visitor use monitoring protocol development, final report
- Visitor use and impact monitoring in Kenai Fjords National Park, a summary of scoping results and future monitoring needs
- The Ecology of Visitation: Investigating the rise of bear-viewing in two remote Alaska parks
- Alaska Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) Location Polygons
- Visitor Use Reporting System (VURn) Commercial Use Authorization Holder User Guide
- Alaska Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) Visitor Use Data at Alaska National Parks and Preserves from 2007-2025 — Data Package