Outdoor Recreation Benchmark 1988: Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Forum

Abstract

BENCHMARK 1988: A National Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Forum was the first national recreation assessment meeting. The need for this meeting grew out of the desire to incorporate scientific, planning, and administrative peer review into the 1989 RPA Assessment of Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness. This meeting brought together many university and government scientists, State and Federal planners, and Federal agency administrative policy decision makers to review and discuss the status of outdoor recreation and wilderness in the United States. The opportunities for interaction among these participants was expected to help make the RPA Assessment, and subsequent Program recom-mendations, more relevant to those who are affected and better grounded to a baseline of fact and prevailing opinion.

Titles contained within Outdoor Recreation Benchmark 1988: Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Forum

• Wilderness visitor management practices: a benchmark and an assessment of progress
• Wilderness recreation use: the current situation

Citation

Watson, Alan H. 1989. Outdoor Recreation Benchmark 1988: Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Forum. Gen. Tech. Rep. SE-52. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 498 p.