The effect of verbal interpretive message on day user impacts at Mount Rainer National Park

Anne Kernan; Ellen Drogin

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The effect of verbal interpretive message on day user impacts at Mount Rainer National Park

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Anne Kernan, Ellen Drogin

Year:

1995

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 127-132

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Abstract

The behaviors of 434 hikers visiting the heavily used Bench Lake/Snow Lake Trail at Mount Rainier National Park were observed to assess the effect of a verbal interpretive message on compliance with minimum impact hiking recommendations. Significant relationships were found between compliance and message exposure, and a variety of situational and demographic variables.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Kernan, Anne; Drogin, Ellen. 1995. The effect of verbal interpretive message on day user impacts at Mount Rainer National Park. In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 127-132