Sentence examples for trail impact from inspiring English sources

"The park has just about reached the extent of its capacity, and over time, as the word spread, it could increase trail impact substantially," said Buzz Caverly, Baxter's director, who explained that he would rather see the trail bypass the park rather than go through it.

Of particular concern, the loss of soil through erosion is generally considered a significant and irreversible form of trail impact.

Urban forest managers regularly deal with recreational trail impacts and dissatisfied trail users.

Users' reports of which trail impacts they perceived varied according to the form of the questions in the questionnaire.

There was an emphasis on assessing trail impacts at a local scale, either on the trail itself and/or over short gradients away from the trail edge.

Additionally, activity type (specifically horseback riders) and trail design were found to best predict trail impacts when controlling for spatial dependency.

The trail location algorithm considered trail impacts and benefits associated with water bodies, slope, land ownership, noise, trail separation, views, and rider preferences for vegetation types and loop trails.

Previous work suggests that soil and vegetation recovery following cessation of ORV trail use can be very slow to non-existent, and thus the propagation of trail impacts at the watershed-scale may continue even if trail use is closed.

Quadrats at 6.40 m from the edge of the trail were designated as the referent or control plots because we expected trail impacts to be minimal >6 m from the trail.

Such a program would provide valuable information to better manage and restore similar lands in Alaska and other boreal landscapes subject to ORV trail impacts, which are increasingly widespread and difficult to regulate.

It is recognized that trail impacts in WRST and similar ecosystems are most severe on lands with organic wetland soils, while watersheds with mineral soils and colluvial channels are more resilient (Slaughter and others 1990); (Happe and others 1998).