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Giving Voice To Wildlands Visitors: Selecting Indicators To Protect And Sustain Experiences In The Eastern Arctic Of Nunavut, Alan Watson, Brian Glaspell, Neal Christensen, Paul Lachapelle, Vicki Sahanatien, Frances Gertsch
Giving Voice To Wildlands Visitors: Selecting Indicators To Protect And Sustain Experiences In The Eastern Arctic Of Nunavut, Alan Watson, Brian Glaspell, Neal Christensen, Paul Lachapelle, Vicki Sahanatien, Frances Gertsch
USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications
Many public land management agencies are committed to understanding and protecting recreation visitor experiences. Parks Canada is deeply committed to that objective for visitors to Canada’s National Parks. This 2004 study, informed by a 2003 qualitative study of visitor experiences and influences on those experiences at Auyuittuq National Park in Nunavut, worked to bring 50 potential elements of visitor experiences down to five articulated dimensions of the experience that is currently being received at this remote eastern arctic park. A hypothesized set of 17 influences on experiences, also reduced to just two factors with similar response patterns, and with some …