S ince Leonard F.C. Wendt, MD opened the doors of the first diabetes camp in Michigan in 1925, the concept of specialized residential and day camps for children with diabetes has become widespread throughout the U.S. and many other parts of the world. It is estimated that worldwide camps serve 15,000 –20,000 campers with diabetes each summer (1). The mission of camps specialized for children an...

This article draws on three separate research and monitoring studies to describe 20-year trends in the number and condition of campsites in the backcountry of Grand Canyon National Park. Results are used to assess the effectiveness of a complex and innovative management program, adopted in 1983, that sought to concentrate use on designated campsites in popular places and disperse camping in mor...

Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that susceptible to weather climate change. Camping—in addition the relationships camping shares with weather— remains understudied despite subsectors’ salient economic impact high participation rate. The observable effects non-meteorological/climatological (e.g., pandemic) also a topic has received limited attention. Accordingly, we in...

This paper is the second in a sequence of two papers that report on descriptive and prescriptive research undertaken at Isle Royale National Park to support development of a new wilderness management plan at the Park. The first paper reports on the initial phase of study aimed at developing descriptive information on backcountry camping at Isle Royale using computer simulation modeling. The pre...