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Volume 29
Number 1
Summer 2012
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Half Dome visitor use management

Optimizing park operations and visitor experiences through empirical evidence

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By Bret Meldrum, Steve Lawson, Nathan Reigner, and David Pettebone

View from above of a line of hikers ascending the Half Dome cables in Yosemite National Park during a busy summer day.
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Photo of the Deep Cut monument (in the distance) from cannon line of S. D. Lee during the Second Battle of Manassas, August 1862. Using GIS analysis to help determine Civil War cannon locations in Manassas National Battlefield Park
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By Bryan Gorsira, Rodrigo Costas De La Fuente, and Sean Denniston
Photo of Trail Ridge Road at Rocky Mountain National Park, site of the permafrost study. Hot research/Cool science: An investigation of permafrost in a changing alpine environment
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By Cheri Yost and Jason Janke
Photo of Point Loma Lighthouse, Cabrillo National Mounument, California, location of the LIVE remote learning activity. Live Interactive Virtual Explorations provide students with glimpse of life at the Old Point Loma Lighthouse in the late 1800s
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 By Kimberly Bruch, Hans-Werner Braun, and Susan Teel
Close up photo of robber fly (Albibarbefferia albibarbis) from the Boston Harbor Islands. Boston Harbor Islands All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory
Integrating science, education, and management in an urban island park
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By Jessica Rykken and Marc Albert
Sidebar article The challenges of documenting biodiversity
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By Jessica Rykken and Marc Albert
Macro photo of marine invertebrate fossils from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Paleoblitz
Uncovering the fossil record of the national parks
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By Vincent L. Santucci, Justin S. Tweet, and Jason P. Kenworthy
Case Studies
A view of Saguaro National Park and residential development beyond park boundaries. Monitoring park landscape dynamics through NPScape: Saguaro National Park
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By William B. Monahan, Don E. Swann, J. Andrew Hubbard, and John E. Gross
Sidebar article Finding and acquiring NPScape products
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By William B. Monahan, Don E. Swann, J. Andrew Hubbard, and John E. Gross
Research Reports
Diagram demonstrating the nexus among social, environmental, and economic considerations that make up sustainable tourism. Mitigating encroachment of park experiences
Sustainable tourism in gateway communities
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By Desmond Lee and Dean Reeder
Photo of a volunteer using binoculars to observe visitor behavior and collect data for the study in El Capitan Meadow. Developing an accessible methodology for monitoring visitor use patterns in open landscapes of Yosemite National Park
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By Chelsey Walden-Schreiner, Yu-Fai Leung, Todd Newburger, and Brittany Woiderski
Photo of Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park. Understanding endangered plant species population changes at Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park
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By Jane Cipra and Kelly Fuhrmann
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