Managing Informal Trail Impacts. Jeff Marion, Unit Leader/Scientist Virginia Tech Field Unit, USGS, Patuxent WRC
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1 Managing Informal Trail Impacts Jeff Marion, Unit Leader/Scientist Virginia Tech Field Unit, USGS, Patuxent WRC
2 Presentation Objectives Informal Trail Management!! Decision Process!! Inventory & Monitoring!! Visitor Education (Leave No Trace practices)!! Site Management!! Research Studies
3 Informal Trail Management: A Decision Process!! Problem Description Collect Inventory & Monitoring Data!! Evaluate Impact Acceptability!! Evaluate Causes and Alternative Solutions!! Apply Site and/or Visitor Management Actions
4 Trail Survey Results Formal Informal mi mi
5 Shenandoah National Park
6 Shenandoah National Park
7 Informal Trail Management!! Problem Description - Collect Inventory & Monitoring Data!! Evaluate Impact Acceptability!! Evaluate Causes and Alternative Solutions!! Site Management!! Visitor Management
8 Evaluate Impact Acceptability!!Consider the management zone and objectives:!! Impacts are less acceptable in pristine areas than in developed areas.!!consider resource sensitivity:!! Impacts are less acceptable when they affect R,T & E species or cultural resources.!! Design attributes related to resistance (e.g., grade).!!consider use-related factors:!! Appropriateness of type, amount, or location of use.!! User-behavior (e.g., short-cuts)
9 Management Zone Acadia NP, Little Moose Island Natural Zone
10 Informal trails on Little Moose Island, Acadia NP Condition Class Length (ft) Percent Condition Class Description 0 3, , , , Trail barely distinguishable; no or minimal disturbance of vegetation and/or organic litter. Trail distinguishable; slight loss of veg cover and/or minimal disturbance of organic litter. Trail obvious; vegetation cover lost or disturbed. Vegetation cover lost and organic litter lost in nearly all places, but little or no erosion. Soil erosion or compaction in tread is beginning in some places. Soil erosion or compaction is common; tread is obviously below ground surface.
11 Resource Sensitivity Informal trails are more susceptible to impacts due to:!! Steep grades!! Fall line alignments!! Lack of construction!! Lack of maintenance Shenandoah NP
12 Low Alignment angle High Alignment angle
13 Informal Trail Management!! Problem Description - Collect Inventory & Monitoring Data!! Evaluate Impact Acceptability!! Evaluate Causes and Alternative Solutions!! Site Management!! Visitor Management
14 Evaluate Causes Field Assessment
15 Evaluate Causes: Results from a Visitor Survey Reasons for hiking off trail Percent To get to a scenic vista or area of interest 45.1 To move past others on the trail 39.5 Because there was an unmarked trail that already existed 38.8 To explore 34.7 Accidentally because the trail was poorly marked 33.9 To get around a difficult part of the trail 30.2 To get away from crowds on the trail 28.8 To get around poor trail conditions 28.4 To take a picture 20.6 To get to a rock climbing spot 15.7 To get to a picnic spot 12.2 To view wildlife/birds 11.5 To take a route you always use 9.4 To view wildflowers 7.7 To get to a fishing spot 0.7
16 Evaluate Alternative Solutions!! No action needed for trails found to be acceptable - consider basic management:!!limited maintenance of tread/vegetation!!reroute non-sustainable/problem sections!! Close trails with unacceptable impacts, from illegal uses, and those representing avoidable impact.!! Implement actions and monitoring as part of an adaptive management program. Use a phased approach that applies indirect to more direct actions.!! Integrated site management and educational actions are always more effective than single actions.
17 Informal Trail Management!!Site Management!!Improve Management of Formal Trails!!Close & Restore Unacceptable Trails!!Evaluate/Redesign Trails Left Open!!Maintain Trails
18 Improve Management of Formal Trails!! Improve blazing!! Improve tread!! Add trail borders or fencing
19 Close & Restore Unacceptable Trails!! Close unacceptable informal trails!! Implement restoration work where possible
20 Evaluate/Redesign Trails Left Open For informal trails left open:!! Evaluate the sustainability of alignments!! Consider reroutes of non-sustainable sections!! Consider designation as formal trails
21 Maintain Informal Trails For informal trails left open:!! Consider minimal maintenance work where needed (e.g., influence route by rearranging large rocks to protect rare plants or prevent soil erosion)
22 Informal Trail Management!!Visitor Management!!Education Leave No Trace Practices!!Regulation
23 Visitor Education Visitor Education ensure that visitors are aware that:!! off-trail trampling impacts are a problem,!! remaining on formal trails protects park resources,!! all formal trails are blazed/marked. Visitor Regulation ensures that visitors know:!! when off-trail hiking is permitted, discouraged, or prohibited.
24 Educational Messages:!! should clearly specify low impact behaviors,!! should provide a rationale when possible,!! Attribution message: Your feet have trampled the vegetation on this island. Please stay on the blazed formal trails!! Injunctive-proscriptive message: Please don't go off the designated trails in order to protect the rare vegetation in this park
25 Education Leave No Trace Practices Travel on Durable Surfaces:!! Formal Trails!! Established informal trails (when appropriate)!! Rock/snow!! Naturally exposed sand/soil!! Grasses!! Organic litter
26 Regulation!!Establish regulations and install signage stating that off-trail traffic is prohibited.
27 Research: Education & Site Management!! Effective educational messages:!! Sanction (Swearingen & Johnson, 1994 & 1992)!! Attribution (Bradford & McIntyre, 2007)!! Injunctive-Proscriptive (Winter, 2005)!! Importance of sign location (Bradford & McIntyre, 2007)!! Uniformed employees often as effective as educational signs (Widner & Roggenbuck, 2000)!! Barriers in combination with signs (Park et al, 2008);
28 Research: Potomac Gorge, Bear Island Bear Island is the focus of this research!! 96 acres!! Home to over 50 of Maryland s R,T&E species!! Co-owned by the NPS & The Nature Conservancy!! Billy Goat Trail, Section A!! Formal trails = 3.5 mi; informal trails = 9.5 mi!! Very high visitation, 2000 hikers on some weekends
29 Research Studies <! Additive treatments <! Unobtrusive observation!! Intensive blazing!! Formalized side vista trails!! Trailhead educational signage!! Prompter signage at informal!! trailheads!! Informal trail brushing!! Symbolic fencing!! Informal trail site restoration!! Personal contact!! Threats: Stay on Trail Unexploded Ordinance
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34 Research Results Treatment Stayed On-Trail Went Off-Trail Control 1899, 75.3% 623, 24.7% Prompter 2303, 93.1% 171, 6.9% Brushing 2205, 98.0% 44, 2.0% Restoration 466, 97.1% 14, 2.9% Stewards 182, 100.0% 0, 0.0%
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