ABSTRACT
This chapter compares different approaches to defi ning and mapping wildland areas in the North Pennines to establish minimal-intervention areas where a rewilding programs might be introduced. These approaches were implemented in a geographic information system (GIS), and include visibility analysis, multicriteria evaluation, and the use of fuzzy logic. Overall, many of the approaches identifi ed a very small percentage of wildland for the Allendale catchment. However, the fuzzy set and composite approaches provided the most appropriate means by which to identify continuous areas of high quality wildland that incorporates individual perceptions of wildland and attitudes toward anthropogenic features. Although the analyses were limited to the Allendale catchment, these techniques, when combined and placed in the context of the Wilderness Continuum Concept, were found to identify a number
of high quality wildland areas potentially suitable for the location of rewilding programs, and could be easily extended to the whole North Pennines area.
