Graduation Year
2018
Graduation Month
May
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
School or Department
Forestry and Conservation
Major
Resource Conservation
Faculty Mentor Department
Wilderness Management
Faculty Mentor
Natalie Dawson
Keywords
Wilderness, Bitterroot, Blue Joint, Forest, Campsites
Subject Categories
Forest Management
Abstract
In order to know whether an area should become Wilderness, both managers and interested members of the public need to have an idea of what this area is like. My coworker Jamie Drysdale and I collected this data over nine weeks last summer. We followed protocols laid out in Keeping it Wild: An Interagency Strategy to Monitor Trends in Wilderness Character Across the Wilderness Preservation System. We collected data on things such as campsites, invasive plants, installations and developments, trail users, motorized or mechanized use, erosion, and signage. From this data I created maps of the different areas showing each attribute. These maps alongside other graphs and explanations by Lisa Gerloff can be found in a report at http://www.cfc.umt.edu/wi/files/citizen-science/Report.BitterrootRecWild.FINAL.pdf and the report on the Blue Joint area at http://www.cfc.umt.edu/wi/files/citizen-science/Report.BlueJoint.RecWild.FINAL.pdf .
Honors College Research Project
1
Recommended Citation
Stinson, Carly, "Field Measures of Wilderness Character for Bitterroot Recommended Wilderness, Bitterroot National Forest." (2018). Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts. 210.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/utpp/210
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