Title: Landscape maps as an aid to management of scenic mountain areas
Author: Baumgartner, Roland
Date: 1979
Source: In: Elsner, Gary H., and Richard C. Smardon, technical coordinators. 1979. Proceedings of our national landscape: a conference on applied techniques for analysis and management of the visual resource [Incline Village, Nev., April 23-25, 1979]. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-35. Berkeley, CA. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p. 136-141
Station ID: GTR-PSW-035
Description: Before any question about wise management decisions concerning the visual resource of our environment can be answered, it is necessary to conduct a detailed analysis to determine the integral visual inventory of landscape, as it impresses any involved person. With this method of landscape analysis researchers and planners can specify the potential of any region with an approach suitable for the problem. The knowledge about visual landscape elements is, in addition, a requirement to comprehend their influence on the motivation of any visitor or inhabitant.
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Baumgartner, Roland 1979. Landscape maps as an aid to management of scenic mountain areas. In: Elsner, Gary H., and Richard C. Smardon, technical coordinators. 1979. Proceedings of our national landscape: a conference on applied techniques for analysis and management of the visual resource [Incline Village, Nev., April 23-25, 1979]. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-35. Berkeley, CA. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: p. 136-141 .