Assessment and Monitoring of Recreation Impacts and Resource Conditions on Mountain Summits: Examples From the Northern Forest, USA

*Corresponding author: [email protected] Department of Environment and Society and The Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5215 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5215, USA USDepartment of Interior, USGeological Survey, Virginia Tech, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA24061, USA Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA