“In the Appalachians of Tennessee, the Baja desert of Mexico, the Sierra Nevada of California, even Alaska’s remote coastline, the story is the same: User impact is spreading faster than land managers can control it. In the words of one frustrated researcher, ‘We are quite literally loving our wilderness to death.’” NOLS Soft Paths, 1988
Source link: https://blog.nols.edu/avoiding-the-crowds by Travis Welch at blog.nols.edu