Wilderness Management Principles

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Wilderness Management Principles
are not absolute
course website
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Principle 1 Manage wilderness as the most
pristine extreme on the environmental
modification spectrum.
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spectrum or gradient
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There ought to be a road. It just aint fair
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Devel. Ave. Wild.
some other People
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Devel. Ave. Wild.
some other People
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Principle 2 Manage wilderness comprehensively,
not as separate parts.
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Specialists tend to develop blinders
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What is a resource?
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Resource Something we have evaluated as serving
some human purpose.
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Purpose may be utilitarian, or may be aesthetic
or emotional.
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Principle 3 Manage wilderness, and sites within,
under a nondegradation concept.
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Nondegratation ... but, Limits of Acceptable
Change (LAC) accepts that some change
inevitable. Priciples are guidelines.
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Principle 4 Manage human influences, a key to
wilderness protection.
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• Wilderness, set aside to minimize human impacts
• direct
• less direct

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Principle 5 Manage wilderness biocentrically to
produce human values and benefits.
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Principle 6 Favor wilderness-dependent
activities.
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Principle 7 Guide wilderness manage-ment using
written plans with specific objectives. People
move. Accountability.
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Plans planning provide mechanism for public
input.
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• Objectives ..
• need to be measurable
• basis for management actions and monitoring

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• Principle 8 Set carrying capacities as necessary
  to prevent unnatural damage.
• Two issues
• physical/biological condition
• social/psychological condition

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If we lock people out, who will fight to protect
the wilderness? Ira Spring
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Principle 9 Focus management on threatened sites
and damaging activities.
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Principle 10 Apply only the mini-mum tools,
regulations, or force to achieve wilderness-area
objectives. USFS - usually minimal rules NPS -
more restrictive (preservationist)
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Minimum tool ..
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Principle 11 Involve the pubic as a key to the
success of wilderness management.
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Facilitating volunteers
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Principle 12 Monitor wilderness conditions and
experience opportun-ities to guide long-term
stewardship.
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Feedback
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Planning What do we have? What do we want? How do
we get what we want? How close have we come?
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Principle 13 Manage wilderness in relation to
management of adjacent lands. Things cross
wilderness boundaries in both directions.
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• Ideal...
• have a total system that is balanced
• invasion, succession and displacement
• surveys will find happy campers

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Ideal ... a range of opportunities, with people
guided to areas suited to what they are seeking.