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Soil erosion and vegetation loss accelerated by visitor use of Paradise Meadows, Mount Rainier National Park

Creator:

Fritzke, Susan L.

Abstract:

Recreational impacts on the subalpine-alpine ecosystems of Mount Rainier National Park have developed over the past century, and today pose a major problem for park managers. Field data were collected during the summer of 1987 in the Paradise meadows area in order to describe visitor impacts on social trails (trails...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis