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A Total Forest Management Plan
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Campsites can often be screened by topography or vegetation to reduce effects of auto and road lighting, parking lights, and commercial lighting. Nearness to planned and existing roads areas can be mapped and choices made to expedite access or reduce noise and distractions.
Soil erosion potential for a campsite or nearby areas need to be computed routinely and mapped.
As systems develop, staff must be able to estimate the impacts of horses, and hikers on the countryside, including their influence on trails but also on waste disposal and water quality. Permits should be conditioned by such information.
A campground Report Card based on 1980 New Hampshire card Developed by LePage and Bevins and others, distributed to a sample of campers. They included ABCDE ctegories after each in a table. Now that can be 0 to 10 in a dropdown response box in a computer for campers as they leave an area, or presented on a card as they did. A=excellent, B=better than average,C=average, D=below average, E=poor, where A=8, C=4, and E=0 (Likert-like scale, 8 to 0 equivalents). The difference between 8 and 6 is surely different that between 2 and 0, even though numerically identical, thus invalidating the analytical process of addition and division to get averages. Alternative numerical values have to be assigned to the meanings of the letter grades.
Campground Number Date Is this your first visit to this campground? yes/no |
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