Land Planning Concepts

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Land Planning Concepts

• The Methods Theory Recreation Outdoor
  Education Providers use to manage the land the
  people

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Sustainability

• The health of the oceans depends on the health
  of the rivers the health of the rivers depends
  on the health of small streams the health of
  small streams depends on the health of their
  watersheds
• Wendell Berry, from a book of essays titled The
  Way of Ignorance in Duluth News Tribune 11/2/08

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Basic Planning Approaches

• Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC)
• Benefits Based Management
• vs. Best Management Practices
• Public Participation
• Multiple Use
• Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS)

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Limits of Acceptable Change (G. H. Stankey, D.
N. Cole, R. C. Lucas, M. E. Petersen. S. S.
Frissell, 1985)

• Based upon a set of baseline data To know the
  area before development
• An effort to prevent desensitization
• Reflects biological, physical, and social
  conditions The social demands are what most
  influence the biological physical

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• The Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) planning
  system
• Response to growing recognition in the U .S. that
  attempts to define and implement recreational
  carrying capacities were both excessively
  reductionistic and failing.
• Carrying capacity concept itself was based on
  biological models.
• Such models did not transfer well into ecosystems
  being managed for human benefits based primarily
  on recreational experiences

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• LAC was based on the recognition that
• ( 1) specific objectives were needed to identify
  what it was that management was to protect,
• (2) change is always present in nature-dominated
  systems,
• (3) any recreational use leads to some change,
• (4) management is therefore confronted with the
  question of how much change is acceptable, and
• (5) monitoring of the outcomes of management is
  needed to determine if actions were effective.
  (McCool, 1989. Paper presented at Workshop on
  Impact Management in Marine Parks, sponsored by
  Maritime Institute of Malaysia, August 13-14,
  1996, Kuala Lumpur, MALA YSIA)

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Benefits Based Management

• Similar to LAC
• Assesses a range of benefits of the
  site Includes biological, physical, social
• Determines highest priorities of site through
  rankings (socially determined) and manages based
  on those benefits.

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Multiple Use

• Coined by Gifford Pinchot
• An effort to provide multiple compatible uses for
  an area
• It is not everyones right to use the same area.

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Designations (Classes) in ROS

• Primitive
• Semi-primitive Nonmotorized
• Semi-primitive Motorized
• Roaded Natural
• Rural
• Urban

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