INFORMAL AND FORMAL TRAIL MONITORING PROTOCOLS

ponents were deployed to help visitors travel around Mount Desert Island and in Acadia National Park. Real-time travel information was collected and integrated with Island Ex-plorer buses and disseminated to visitors via an automated annunciator that transmitted an audio message and dis

identity. The local connections to national parks can be positive sources of stewardship; however, they may also spur conflict over management decisions about the resource. Thus, national park managers may do well to understand how the places they manage have local significance.

by 10 to 25 % since 1982, in part due to the 1995 implementation of Phase I controls of the Clean Air Act Amendments and in part to other long-term pollution reduction efforts. Sulfate in surface waters of Acadia NP declined 10%, the low end of the range in the region, perhaps because of the input

, Charlie Jacobi and other park staff at Acadia National Park for their contribution to this research, Dr. Robert Manning of the University of Vermont for his involvement in the study, and Drs. Joe Roggenbuck and Jeff Marion of Virginia Tech for their scholarly review of this manuscript. Finally

Abstract We reviewed literature reporting both total and methylmercury from biota from Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Our review of existing data indicates that 1) mercury contamination is widespread throughout the Park_s various aquatic ecosystems; 2) mercury pollution likely represents a

We assess the drive times and the number of potential tourists and Maine residents that could visit the proposed Katahdin Woods & Waters National Park in Northern Maine. We used ArcGIS to calculate the drive times from potential North and South park entrances to eight locations: Acadia National

Major episodic acidifications were observed on several occasions in first-order brooks at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Short-term declines ofup to 2 pH units and 130/•eq L acid-neutralizing capacity were caused by HC1 from soil solutions, rather than by H2SO4 or HNO3 from

Front cover. Photograph of Hodgdon Pond at Acadia National Park, on August 12, 2013, from a point near the outlet of the pond looking north. Extensive wetlands occur on east and west sides of the outlet stream. Photograph courtesy of Ariel Lewis, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversity and difference and as fonts for creativity and innovation. Yet until recently, social scientists