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Information as a management tool: An evaluation of the Pemigewasset Wilderness management plan

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The newly instituted management plan for the Pemigewasset Wilderness area of New Hampshire, USA, which relies principally on providing information to visitors, represents a departure from traditional plans. Logit analysis of survey data indicates limited evidence of the plan having much direct impact on visitor behavior. There is evidence of success in information dissemination to area users; however, the type of information that is being relayed to backcountry users does not appear to be that which the management plan is attempting to promote.

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  1. Department of Resource Economics and Development, University of New Hampshire, 03824, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

    Cindy M. Brown & John M. Halstead

  2. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Albert E. Luloff

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Brown, C.M., Halstead, J.M. & Luloff, A.E. Information as a management tool: An evaluation of the Pemigewasset Wilderness management plan. Environmental Management 16, 143–148 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02393819

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