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Seems to be that every time somebody tries to make suggestions for "potential management actions that are available", others are quick to shoot them down, because they don't get it.
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Except, the Agency managers DO care about such things, and have to give consideration to them. (I don't know the Yosemite managers, but I'd think they are similar to the FS managers I know)
Managers from both the Park Service (NPS) and the Forest Service (USFS) have legal requirements to comply with. They are not free to apply their or your definition of "wilderness experience". Both the Congress and the State of California are in the regulatory game. The requirements managers are subject to and their methods used in response are available to the public. For a beginning example for each:
NPS:
Role of Science in Sustainable Management
of Yosemite Wilderness
Jan W. van Wagtendonk
USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-27. 2003
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p027/rmrs_p027_225_230.pdfUSFS:
Cole, D. and T. Carlson. 2010.
Numerical visitor capacity: A guide to its use in wilderness.
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station
RMRS--GTR--247,
Ft.Collins,Colorado.
http://www.wilderness.net/toolboxes/docu...0Wilderness.pdfThere is a lot more information about what has been done and why. You have to decide whether you want to know what is going on and change whatever laws may conflict with your desires or if you want to keep reinventing what are already broken wheels under current regulations, practice, and experience and blaming managers for your lack of knowledge.
Dale B. Dalrymple
