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Examining Hiker Dispersal: What’s Next

December 1, 2021
Pete Nelson
Protection
Adaptive Management, Blue Ridge Wilderness, High Peaks Wilderness

ne of the issues AWA is working on is dispersal: the strategy of redirecting hikers from busier to lesser-used trailheads. We started with an informal survey sent to our supporters, to help us gain additional perspective on hikers’ views of dispersal. We learned quite a bit from…

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Leading the Way on Adaptive Management

November 26, 2021
Pete Nelson
Protection
Adaptive Management, High Peaks Wilderness, Paul Smiths VIC, Visitor Use Management
In partnership with our allies, including Adirondack Wild, the Adirondack Mountain Club, Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center and Technical Advisor Chad Dawson, AWA is leading the way in promoting adaptive…
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Expertise and Adaptive Management for the High Peaks

March 15, 2021
Pete Nelson
Protection
Adaptive Management, High Peaks Wilderness, Visitor Use Management
AWA’s first order of business in serving on the High Peaks Advisory Group (HPAG) was to ensure that protection of the Wilderness was a paramount and inviolate principle.  That was…
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