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Visitor Use on Wild & Scenic Rivers

Visitor Use on Wild & Scenic Rivers

Providing for a quality visitor experience, while at the same time protecting wild & scenic river values, is one of the most difficult of challenges facing a river manager.

Visitor Use on the Klamath River, Oregon - Photo by Bob Wick

Visitor Use Management

This Resource Crosswalk distills resources for achieving essential components of a capacity identification and relationships to other Visitor Use Management (VUM) aspects of river management planning by:

providing background about intent of the work of two interagency councils to address capacities; clarifying the lexicon of key definitions surrounding capacities; synthesizing existing information developed through interagency cooperation and vetted by DOI and DOA solicitors; and demonstrating complimentary resources for phases of planning that represent recommendations and best practices for all federal land and water managing agencies, regardless of the setting or designation, or need for a capacity.

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remember you well. — Mehmet Murat ildan

 

 

Addressing Visitor Use Management & Comprehensive River Management Planning Processes

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCE:  Visitor Use Management on Federally Managed Lands and Waters (National Park Service) – A position paper to guide policy by the Interagency Visitor Use Management Council.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCE:  Steps to Address User Capacities for Wild and Scenic Rivers – Every river management plan is required to address user capacities. This paper explains how to determine those capacities.

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