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    National Parks of the United States: Visitor Attendance in the Early 1950S
    National Parks of the United States: Visitor Attendance in the Early 1950S
    National Parks of the United States: Visitor Attendance in the Early 1950S
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    National Parks of the United States: Visitor Attendance in the Early 1950S

    By Charles Howard Richardson

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    National Parks of the United States examines why visitation will always vary among the national parks just as it did at the time this is covered by this study, the early 1950s. It explores the factors that attract visitors to the National Parks and those that have no bearing on the action of visitors. There is a rank correlation method that reveals the relative degree of attraction among factors that are responsible for the number of visitors flocking to each of the national parks.

    Because the central problem examined by this study is that of accounting for variations in the numbers of visitors to the various national parks of the United States, the analysis employs some widely accepted hypotheses concerning national park visitation. By reviewing such factors as nearly fishing streams, the availability of campsites, and the populations of towns near each park, this study paints a picture of what attracts visitors to one park over another.

    The natural beauty of each of these parks also provides the backdrop for the facilities that are made available and thus have a tremendous impact upon visitor attendance and activities such as hiking, camping, fishing, and climbing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 23, 2011
    ISBN9781426957109
    National Parks of the United States: Visitor Attendance in the Early 1950S
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    Charles Howard Richardson

    Charles Howard Richardson is a retired geographer who has personally visited many of the twenty-six national parks examined within this study. H.H. McCarty, then chairman of the geography department at the University of Iowa, directed this statistical study of visitation in the national parks of the early 1950s. Richardson currently lives in Michigan.

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      National Parks of the United States - Charles Howard Richardson

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      The writer gratefully

      acknowledges the valuable guidance

      given by his adviser

      Dr. Harold H. McCarty, Chairman

      of the Department of Geography.

      Table of Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      Chapter I

      Introduction

      Chapter II

      Data and Hypotheses

      Chapter III

      Tests of the Hypotheses

      Chapter IV

      Results and Conclusions

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

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      Map I The National Parks, 1950

      (This caption was placed below the picture in the original.)

      Chapter I

      Introduction

      The central problem upon which this study is focused is that of accounting for variations in the numbers of visitors to the various national parks of the United States. The analysis employs some widely accepted hypotheses concerning national park visitation. The most pertinent of the hypotheses are found in a National Park Service general report discussing public outdoor recreational facilities, the recreational needs of the people, and the requirements of a park and recreational land plan for the nation.[1] Data were assembled which permitted these hypotheses to be tested by means of rank correlation techniques. The resulting coefficients indicate the relative degrees of association between the several independent variables and data for the number of visitors

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