Excerpt from Fishing and Other Recreation Behavior at High-Mountain Lakes in Washington State The rapid increase of recreation use (and its associated impacts) at high - mountain lakes in unroaded areas is of growing concern to resource managers. In the Pacific Northwest, for example, records show visits to classified Wilderness increased over 70 percent between 1966 and The growing use of roadless areas often has been accompanied by increasing demands for their designation as wilderness or some other permanent, roadless state where people can pursue a variety of recreational activities such as hiking, fishing, and hunting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.