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Final Report – October 2001 than were permits or containing vehicle travel through various means (Table 42). There were no significant seasonal differences (Table 43). Acceptability of Visitor Density at Blair Valley Management issues at Blair Valley include concerns about crowded conditions and opportunities for solitude and especially in and around camping areas. Consequently a photo series was constructed to portray conditions ranging from nearly complete solitude to very crowded surroundings. In the first photo (Panel 2), no other groups are visible. In order, beginning with Photo 2, the number of groups increases from 4, to 16, to 32, 64, and finally 140 other groups in Photo 6. The question for the Blair Valley photo series was: One of the issues in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is to provide recreation opportunities while maintaining solitude in the more remote camping areas. The computer-generated photographs simulate a range of levels of recreational use. The managers are interested in your opinion of how the number of other groups affects your feelings of solitude. To help us assess this, please indicate the acceptability of the conditions represented by each photo. A rating of –4 signifies conditions are very unacceptable; a rating of +4 is very acceptable. Visitors’ responses were overall positive for conditions represented in Photos 1 through 3. In fact, the drop in acceptability from Photo 1 to Photo 2 is rather small (Tables 44 and 45, Figures 34 and 35). Photo 3 demonstrates a larger decrease in acceptability, but the majority of visitors surveyed still found conditions acceptable. In Photo 4 however, conditions depicted became unacceptable to a majority of the respondents. It also appears that the fall population surveyed in Blair Valley might be slightly more sensitive to crowding conditions, judging by how the fall acceptability ratings (red line) drops below the spring scores (blue line) at the conditions depicted in Photo 3. 50
Final Report – October 2001 1 2 3 4 5 6 Panel 2. Photo series representing increasing levels of crowding – Blair Valley. 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -1 -2 -2 -3 -3 -4 -4 Photo 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fall Fall Spring Figure 34. Acceptability of photos 1 through 6 – Blair Valley 51
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