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Non-consumptive Recreation Pressures and the Case of the Vancouver Island Marmot (Marmota vancouverensis)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Philip Dearden
Affiliation:
Department of GeographyUniversity of VictoriaVictoriaBritish Columbia V8W 2Y2, Canada.
Christine Hall
Affiliation:
Department of GeographyUniversity of VictoriaVictoriaBritish Columbia V8W 2Y2, Canada.

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1983

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