Datasets / FWS National Wildlife Refuge System : Wilderness Fellows Report on Wilderness Character Monitoring : Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge


FWS National Wildlife Refuge System : Wilderness Fellows Report on Wilderness Character Monitoring : Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This document is the completed effort of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wilderness Fellows program to develop a monitoring strategy and evaluate the status of the Okefenokee Wilderness of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. This document gives context to the status of the Okefenokee wilderness and identifies the major management challenges associated with maintaining wilderness character. This document is intended to be a reference source for readers interested in understanding the wilderness and to detail the natural and anthropogenic impacts that threaten the state of wilderness character. The Okefenokee Wilderness Character Monitoring Plan was developed using 49 distinct measures that assess the following: untrammeled quality, natural quality, undeveloped quality, and solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation quality.