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Landscape Aesthetics (AH 701-a) - Introduction

Reference Type
Other (Miscellaneous)

This section of the handbook includes the cover sheet, table of contents, acknowledgements, summary, purpose and scope, and an introduction to scenery management. [AH 701 pages 1-42]

"High quality scenery, especially scenery with natural-appearing landscapes, enhances peoples lives and benefits society. The Scenery Management System [SMS] presents a vocabulary for managing scenery and a systematic approach for determining the relative value and importance of scenery in a national forest. This handbook was written for national forest resource managers, landscape architects, and others interested in landscape aesthetics and scenery. Both students and the general public, our "constituents," will benefit from the straightforward approach of [this] system to a complex art and science. Ecosystems provide the environmental context for this scenery management system. The system is to be used in the context of ecosystem management to inventory and analyze scenery in a national forest, to assist in establishment of overall resource goals and objectives, to monitor the scenic  resource, and to ensure high-quality scenery for future generations." [AH 701 Abstract]

Authors
L. Blocker, T. Slider, J. Ruchman, J. Mosier, L. Kok, J. Silbemagle, J. Beard, D. Wagner, G. Brogan, D. Jones, N. Laughlinn, L. Anderson (ECPD Draft)
Date Published
1995
Publisher
USDA Forest Service
Pages
42
Sub-Topics
Aesthetics, Landscape Ecology
State(s)/Region(s)
National
Keywords
Landscape, Landscape Preference, SMS, Scenery
Libraries
SO: 5100-001
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